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Sounds like Maven had all this solved many years ago. Yes, it cannot run arbitrary code, like NPM does, it just copies files, but the dependencies and specfiles

Sounds like Maven had all this solved many years ago. Yes, it cannot run arbitrary code, like NPM does, it just copies files, but the dependencies and specfiles were there from the beginning.

ojkelly 3y ago
Not running arbitrary code is a feature, that yarn brings back to the js ecosystem. It sounds nice in theory, but it impacts the soundness of the whole system.
layer8 3y ago
Maven didn’t support transitive dependencies from the beginning.