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I mean programming language package managers are just begging to be used as an attack vector. This is why package management should be an OS responsibility across the board and only trusted package sources and publishers should ever be allowed.
There's also the alternatives of making your own library. I'm happy to use minimal amount of 3rd parties and just make my own instead.
Or at the very fucking least require specific versions with checksums, like golang.
I really think every package repository should be opt in and every publisher should be required to verify their identity and along with checksum verification for the downloaded files.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. What part of the OS should managed the packages? The creators aka. Microsoft/Linux foundation/Apple/Google, the distributor, or a kernel module? What about cross platform package managers like Nuget, gradle, npm?
The OS package manager. This is already a thing with Python in apt and pacman, where it will give you a fat warning if you try to install a package through
pipinstead of the actual OS package manager (i.e.pacman -Syu python-numpyinstead ofpip install numpy)