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That's basically how packages are maintained today, they just don't have as much automation and there's a lot less packages as a result. If you made one package for every software update and had to review each one you'd spend a lot more time reviewing.

Trust isn't an issue in reviewed/maintained repos because you have eyeballs on everything. When anyone can just ship an app/library and release it automatically you get these malicious software issues.




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