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Re:Show HN: My plugin system/package manager for Git on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @09:09PM (#29337530)
You're blindly relying on transport security currently, and that's unacceptable even when distributing your own code.

Integrity verification of distributed packages (ideally cryptographically) is a core and required feature of a package manager.

At an absolute bare minimum you need a Lockfile style mechanism to allow users to ensure two installs are the same.

Re:Show HN: My plugin system/package manager for Git on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @09:00PM (#29337488)
Oh yay, another package manager with absolutely no security. Let's pull and execute code from the internet with no way to validate where packages came from or if they've been tampered with.