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I think it definitely couldn’t hurt. You’re right it doesn’t eliminate the threat of supply chain attacks, but it would certainly reduce them and wouldn’t require much effort to implement (either manually or via script). You’re basically giving maintainers and researchers time to identify new malware and patch or unrelease them before you’re exposed. Just make sure you still take security patches.


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