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If you've ever run an `npm install` you've executed 100s of opaque binaries on your machine.

• paskozdilar 4y ago
  Would you care to elaborate? I always thought npm was open-source-centric. If npm somehow ran opaque binaries, I'd really like to know about that.
  • Something1234 4y ago
    Do you really think your average javascript developer is going to read and understand all of their dependencies?
  • leppr 4y ago
    There is no open-source requirement, like there would be on Gentoo packages for instance. NPM packages frequently pull arbitrary binaries in their install scripts.
  • bhedgeoser 4y ago
    1. There are thousands of dependencies in a usual lockfile. 2. A package author can push something other than the repository contents to npm/ change contents before pushing to npm, making the whole open source thing useless. 3. As someone else pointed out, you can download+exec when an npm package is installed.