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by solatic 2550 days ago
As pwnna pointed out, package size gives you away.

The real way to protect against this, if it's genuinely part of your threat model, is to maintain a complete local mirror: you can't tell what is installed and at what versions if you simply download everything.

And if it's actually part of your threat model, then you likely have a large enough install base that you need a local mirror for performance/non-security reasons anyway. So it's really a non-issue.