Is it really that big of an issue if your package manager pins dependencies by hash?
I guess, public package registry can be down an brake your pipeline, that's a risk. But I don't see how it introduces any new security problems.
> meaningful review No that I think about it, maybe for the first time in history it's actually feasible to review all the code in the repos using LLMs. Before LLMs were a thing, for any big project that would be way too much work to realistically do it.
Also, someone can provide code review of publicly available dependencies as a service, to avoid wasting tokens of reviewing same code again and again by each dev locally on their machine.
U wonder if anyone is already working on such service...
It's definitely more widely known/used for container images than individual software packages.