Safety and integrity of packages is (or should be) a valid concern. This 
accident happened before 90% of internet was malicious:

<https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code>

More recently, browser plugins are being turned malicious after becoming 
famous. Same mechanism could be utilized in nimble packages:

<https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/new-report-unveiling-threat-of.html>

IMO, this is one of the main reasons against shrinking the standard library - 
increased chance of malicious code while having zero mechanism to protect 
nimble users from malicious packages. I

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