That's great until an attacker compromises the automatic update system and uses it as a vector.
replyI would wager that far more systems get exploited because they are out of date (sometimes woefully) than by poisoned package repos.
replyBut, certainly do your own threat assessment and develop and implement whatever plan works for you.
That's what cooldowns are for
replyThat's great until you have a public zero-day exploit.
replyIf it's big enough like this one you can always make an exception.
replybut the embargo delayed the updates
replyThis is how you get wrecked by malicious packages being published or other breaking bugs. Pin your versions.
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