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by snazz 810 days ago
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.
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Yes but the distribution likely depends on it, making it wider spread even without the middleman dependencies.