[notatallshaw]

Seems like this is a fairly recent change, for Pnpm at least, https://socket.dev/blog/pnpm-10-0-0-blocks-lifecycle-scripts...

What has been the community reaction? Has allowing scripts been scalable for users? Or could it be described as people blindly copying and pasting allow commands?

I am involved in Python packaging discussions and there is a pre-proposal (not at PEP stage yet) at the moment for "wheel variants" that involves a plugin architecture, a contentious point is whether to download and run the plugins by default. I'd like to find parallels in other language communities to learn from.

[theodorejb]

In my experience, packages which legitimately require a postinstall script to work correctly are very rare. For the apps I maintain, esbuild is the only dependency which benefits from a postinstall script to slightly improve performance (though it still works without the script). So there's no scaling issue adding one or two packages to a whitelist if desired.