alt Hacker NewsVendoring means you don't have to fetch the internet for every build, that you can work offline, that you're not at the mercy of the oh-so-close-99.999 availability, that it will keep on working in 10 years, and probably other advantages.
If your tooling can pull a dependency from the internet, it could certainly check if more recent version from a vendored one is available.
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estebank • yesterday at 5:58 PM
Is there any package manager incapable of working offline?
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This is only true if you aren’t internally mirroring those packages.
Most places I’ve worked have Artifactory or something like it sitting between you and actual PyPI/npm/etc. As long as someone has pulled that version at some point before the internet goes out, it’ll continue to work after.