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by ravenstine 975 days ago
Hey, that's totally fine if that's what you want to do, especially if it's for your own convenience. What I'm trying to communicate really has nothing to do with whether anyone is being forced to install anything. My point is that there easily avoidable problems that are inherent to pulling in packages hosted elsewhere, and that programmers should consider whether they should avoid suggesting that using a third-party package for something that can be written by hand in a few minutes. That's all I'm saying. For your own use, this makes a lot of sense. If it were me, I would avoid sharing it, and I hope more programmers move away from relying heavily on other people's packages for tiny units of functionality. But I probably wouldn't have been vocal about that here if I knew your intent with that package (or that you even wrote it, which perhaps I missed somewhere).