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by saghm 85 days ago
If everyone hates him and thinks his dependencies are junk, why would anyone let him introduce them to popular packages? Clearly there are at least some people who are indifferent enough if the dependencies are getting added elsewhere
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halapro 83 days ago
OSS is not a democracy. If he controls packages with millions of downloads, you either follow what he does or fork the packages, which is what the article is about.

And even then the vast majority of people will continue to use his packages because they don't care or don't have time to investigate bloat.

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saghm 82 days ago
> OSS is not a democracy. If he controls packages with millions of downloads, you either follow what he does or fork the packages, which is what the article is about.

My point is that in order for any other package not controlled by him, there needs to be someone choosing to depend on them (either by adding it themselves or merging a change that adds it). Whoever that is clearly doesn't seem to hate it as much as you claimed.

> And even then the vast majority of people will continue to use his packages because they don't care or don't have time to investigate bloat.

So in other words, you were grossly exaggerating when you said "everyone" hates the junk dependencies. By your own words, the vast majority of people don't seem to really care enough about it to do anything.

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