diff --git a/docs/Acceptable-Formulae.md b/docs/Acceptable-Formulae.md index 9401deefa6454d447ade21df2bf90e9394015633..c970835bca8ad01a1973da3d392c3ea9523e52fa 100644 --- a/docs/Acceptable-Formulae.md +++ b/docs/Acceptable-Formulae.md @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Clang is the default C/C++ compiler on macOS (and has been for a long time). Sof We're a package manager so we want to do things like resolve dependencies and set up applications for our users. If things require too much manual intervention then they aren't useful in a package manager. ## Stuff that requires vendored versions of Homebrew formulae -Homebrew formulae should avoid having multiple, separate, upstream projects bundled together in a single package to avoid shipping outdated/insecure versions of software that is already a formula. +Homebrew formulae should avoid having multiple, separate, upstream projects bundled together in a single package to avoid shipping outdated/insecure versions of software that is already a formula. Veracode's [State of Software Security report](https://www.veracode.com/blog/research/announcing-state-software-security-v11-open-source-edition) concludes +> In fact, 79% of the time, developers never update third-party libraries after including them in a codebase. For more info see [Debian's](https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles) and [Fedora's](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#bundling) stances on this.