Comment by chainingsolid
1 day ago
I install stuff from Debian's repos for 2 reasons. Convience & trust. And while people do complain when maintainers modify packages behavior, I think people would rather have the send my clipboard contents to someone else to be opt-in. Instead of violating their trust!
If this level of modification is required for a package to fit in with the distro's philosophy, maybe better not to include it at all.
I think the answer might be to codify some of these assumptions.
It might help set things apart from say ubuntu, which doesn't engender the same amount of trust such as opt-in.