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> The first advantage to just copy-pasting is that the snippet author might update it The first disadvantage of “micro packages” over copy-pasting is that the
by jen20 6y ago
> The first advantage to just copy-pasting is that the snippet author might update it
The first disadvantage of “micro packages” over copy-pasting is that the author might update it to do something completely different - either because the author is malicious, or because of a transfer in maintainership of the package to someone who is malicious, or because of a compromise.
- usefulcat 6y agoOr even without any malicious intent, simply because the functionality provided by the package is under/poorly specified.