diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4c7a68a9..ceba56b3 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
+
 # Require 2.0.0.9034 (development version)
 
+* `getCRANrepos()` now also de-duplicates `getOption("repos")` (dropping
+  duplicate repo URLs, keeping the first occurrence to preserve names) in
+  addition to stripping the resolved `@CRAN@` placeholder, updating the global
+  `repos` option in place so downstream resolvers don't query the same repo
+  twice. Centralizes repo cleanup that previously lived in
+  `SpaDES.project::setupProject()`.
+
 * Resilience to the transient
   `cannot open URL 'http://bioconductor.org/config.yaml'` failure. pak/pkgcache
   fetch the Bioconductor config at startup, and the entire pak call dies when
@@ -95,8 +103,6 @@
   `?RequireOptions`. (Flows through `SpaDES.project::setupProject()` via
   `options = list(Require.noRemotes = TRUE)`.)
 
-# Require 2.0.0.9027 (development version)
-
 * A pinned GitHub commit (`Install("owner/repo@<sha>")`) is now treated as an
   exact-version pin under pak: it installs that exact commit even when a
   *different* version is already installed (previously a bare `@sha` was a no-op
@@ -108,8 +114,6 @@
   qualify (`isExplicitShaPin()`); branch refs, `(HEAD)` refs, and refs already
   carrying a version spec are unaffected.
 
-# Require 2.0.0.9026 (development version)
-
 * Performance: the offline (pak download-cache) install path no longer degrades
   to slow one-at-a-time installs when the resolved set contains a package as
   both a CRAN ref and a GitHub ref (e.g. `SpaDES.tools (>= 2.0.0)` plus
diff --git a/R/CRAN.R b/R/CRAN.R
index 8d2a8ef2..cd7d76c9 100644
--- a/R/CRAN.R
+++ b/R/CRAN.R
@@ -52,13 +52,15 @@ getCRANrepos <- function(repos = NULL, ind) {
       repos <- getCRANrepos(repos, 1)
     }
   }
+  # Clean up the global repos option: drop the "@CRAN@" placeholder (now
+  # resolved above) and any duplicate repo URLs so downstream resolvers don't
+  # query the same repo twice. Keep the first occurrence to preserve names.
   reposNow <- getOption("repos")
-  hasAts <- reposNow %in% "@CRAN@"
-  if (isTRUE(any(hasAts))) {
-    options(repos = reposNow[!hasAts])
+  keep <- !(reposNow %in% "@CRAN@") & !duplicated(unname(reposNow))
+  if (!all(keep)) {
+    options(repos = reposNow[keep])
   }
 
-
   return(repos)
 }