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Warn users about similarly named packages #2

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njlr opened this issue Feb 14, 2017 · 1 comment
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Warn users about similarly named packages #2

njlr opened this issue Feb 14, 2017 · 1 comment
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njlr commented Feb 14, 2017

If the user tries to install some-package and both some-package and some_package are available, we should warn the user. Fake packages are a potential security risk.
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njlr commented Oct 29, 2019

Under the new model it's not clear how this could be implemented - we don't know the full universe of packages until resolve time.

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