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very small software packages, such as those on npm, that developers reuse for simple functions, trading convenience for dependency risks.

In software engineering, trivial packages refers to very small software packages, such as those on npm, that developers reuse for simple functions, trading convenience for dependency risks. This meaning comes from Abdalkareem (2017) in Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering.[1]

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  1. Abdalkareem, R., Nourry, O., Wehaibi, S., Mujahid, S., & Shihab, E. (2017). Why do developers use trivial packages? an empirical case study on npm. Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/3106237.3106267

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