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This is one of the things Roc does differently from Elm. Roc packages all work the same way, and you get them from URLs.

Can you elaborate on what "blessed packages issue" is?

Elm allowed only certain packages to use some restricted apis as it was seen as a clique and rubbed people the wrong way.

I'd say Elm fixed packages. Only uses what is needed and detects API breaks.