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The surprising thing to me is that it's taken as long as it has for CRAN to have this problem. As others have said, this is happening everywhere.
by alastairr 3mo ago
The surprising thing to me is that it's taken as long as it has for CRAN to have this problem. As others have said, this is happening everywhere.
- cscheid 3mo agoCRAN has very different social structures and culture than other languages' package repos. CRAN _will_ pull your package from the repository if you fail to play nice with all packages, for example. This is evidently controversial, but it's accepted practice and one possible explanation for why CRAN feels more cohesive than NPM or PyPI.
- alastairr 3mo agoI remember the controversies well :) but I guess even their extra gating is starting to creak by the sounds of it.
- polski-g 3mo agospamming refresh on npmjs's latest packages list is a crazy experience.