Unmasking Phantom Deps W Bill-of-Materials as Ecosystem Neutral Metadata
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The Python dev community released a whitepaper on using SBOM to manage phantom dependencies across ecosystems.
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This whitepaper digs into the sneaky dependencies you didn’t knowingly add (thanks, transitive bloat). It lays out how an SBOM can be a universal metadata layer across ecosystems—pip, npm, you name it—to let you trace every ghost package in your stack.
Feels like the Python dev community quietly dropped a supply-chain lifeline here.