[ro_ro]

I should clarify... Vendoring is a terrible solution. Caching is a general good practice but not a solution.

All in all, this kind of thing happens once in a blue moon...

[byroot]

I don't claim it's a long term solution, and that you should run of your cache for years.

But having that cache means you have the time to get a clean solution rather than having to rush something because nobody can work anymore can you can't deploy fixes to production either.

These yanking issues are really problematic, but if they interrupted your workflow, then there's something wrong with your build pipeline.