When I first heard of this practice, I had a similar idea. Now I think it would be a terrible idea.
As I pointed out in a different thread towards one of these authors, since the libraries are rarely updated and their stand alone versions are almost always Out of Date, it's a VERY BAD idea to force people to use stand-alone libraries.
Enabling Minion to download out of date standalone libraries to support a non-compliant addon would simply encourage a very bad programming practice. Instead, we should be strongly objecting to anyone who is releasing addons without their needed libraries and doing everything we can to discourage that practice.
IMHO.
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