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Just annoys me that he calls features "crap" just because he likely doesn't use them personally and ends that post with a random sentence claiming such a version "increases the risk of drive-by attacks" with zero evidence. The developer explains the features aren't plugins and aren't even enabled by default. Arrogance from maintainers like this from within Debian is what will hurt it far more than any external entity.

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Exactly, this rude and insulting behavior is why many people shy away from open source. Not everybody has the time and mental capacity to engage in ideological battles about software architecture.

We should really hold more value to keeping existing user setups working. Breakages are incredibly damaging and might very well have a bigger impact than insecure defaults.

> he calls features "crap" just because he likely doesn't use them personally

"All of these features are superfluous and do not really belong in a local password database manager" seems to me like a pretty clear explanation of what is "crap" about them, and it seems pretty clearly not to be about personal taste.

Some people care about modularity.

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