

I’m not super familiar with Maven so I could be wrong, but doesn’t Maven still pull depencies from upstream? That doesn’t fix the problem. Having depencies packaged in the OS means there is in theory some level of overview and review by the package maintainer(s).








That’s essentially how most distributions of Linux and Unix work. You package an app with a list of depencies like “libcaca >= 1.2.3” and that’s that. If that dependency isn’t available in the distro you need to have that packaged (and thus have a maintIner for said package) first. The distro’s package maintainers are responsible for keeping an eye on the upstream sources and provide reviews. Often there’s also a security team that watches for packages requiring expedited attention, and security backports.
Then this sort of crap like NPM came along and it became popular for devs to package their own dependencies.