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Why GitHub is not a great package repository

• ogdoad 9y ago
  Link won't work...
  • JelteF 9y ago
    That's exactly the problem. People can just remove their Go packages.
    • deleted 9y ago
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    • krapp 9y ago
      It's not a problem - other people have the right to do what they wish with their own projects. Not cloning your dependency tree or maintaining a local fork precisely so other maintainers' nonsense can't hurt you is the problem.
    • ogdoad 9y ago
      Link still won't work...
• kjksf 9y ago
  Every repository has the same problem. Here's an incident in npm https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ For legal and moral reasons any package repository needs to allow deleting packages. Either because the content violates some laws or because the author decided he no longer wants to publish his stuff. In practice removal of packages happens so rarely that it's not a problem. At least on github you can find forks of go-bindata.