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Disagree strongly and as a user I feel distributions and package maintainers are a necessary defense against overly opinionated developers. I'm glad there is a

Disagree strongly and as a user I feel distributions and package maintainers are a necessary defense against overly opinionated developers. I'm glad there is a layer there that will patch and configure to better integrate into the system and in some (very rare) cases remove user hostile "functionality".

icedchai 7y ago
Sometimes it's better to trust the developers, not the packagers. Example is the Debian SSH vulnerability from 2008: https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576 https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576 This was a bug introduced in packaging. See https://lwn.net/Articles/281436/ https://lwn.net/Articles/281436/ for more details.