Comment by snazz
3 years ago
It’s similarly problematic but on a somewhat smaller scale and with fewer levels of nested dependencies.
3 years ago
It’s similarly problematic but on a somewhat smaller scale and with fewer levels of nested dependencies.
I’m not sure this would be smaller scale? At least probably too early to tell?
I just mean fewer total packages and fewer maintainers. Linux libraries and packages don’t have the culture of making a package out of a single small function and importing it everywhere, which is part of the reason why NPM is a good case study in opportunities for supply chain attacks.
Yes but the distribution likely depends on it, making it wider spread even without the middleman dependencies.