[halflife]

This sucks for libraries that download native binaries in their install script. There are quite a few.

[lrvick]

Downloading binaries as part of an installation of a scripting language library should always be assumed to be malicious.

Everything must be provided as source code and any compilation must happen locally.

[oulipo2]

Sure, but then you need to have a way to whitelist

[lrvick]

The whitelist is the package-lock.json of the hashes of libraries you or a security reviewer you trust has reviewed.

[junon]

You can still whitelist them, though, and reinstall them.