I wholeheartedly agree, but will add the further complication: who is the user anyhow? Is it the downstream packager, or the importer of your library, or

I wholeheartedly agree, but will add the further complication: who is the user anyhow? Is it the downstream packager, or the importer of your library, or the end user of the distro that includes your thing, the unfortunate sysadmin who needs to glue it together, or his boss, or the "luser" trying to use the tool containing your thing, or his boss, or their shareholders? What if all these "users" do not agree on some point or other? It seems like a conundrum with a likely non-ideal outcome.