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by CiPHPerCoder 778 days ago
> Packagist is mostly a graveyard of libraries that people have coded up for their exact niche use-case 8 years ago (with no updates since), with little flexiblity beyond that (like you would see for libraries in other ecosystems).

Could you provide some examples? I wrote a lot of PHP libraries over the years, and while some are definitely stale because nobody uses them (and thus I have no incentive to keep the lights on), the only time I see dead packages, they're actually forks of other open source software that people contributed exactly one commit to (to change the package name).