Gregory's Server@keepassxc Though I appreciate having a minimal package, I think naming the packages the other way round would be less confusing to existing users - keepassxc-minimal and keepassxc.
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 @joel @njoseph @keepassxc Especially since there are now many years of online how-tos, blog posts, Stack Overflow answers, etc. telling Debian users "you can install the complete KeePassXC via the keepassxc package," and none of that material is ever going to be updated to reflect the change. So a lot of people are going to be unwittingly steered into downloading a package that isn't what they think it is. @jalefkowit @joel @njoseph @keepassxc online how-tos for installing a single package? @steko @joel @njoseph @keepassxc You can't imagine someone writing an article along the lines of "How to get started using a password manager" that tells people to install a particular package? @jalefkowit @joel @njoseph @keepassxc there seem to be hundreds of such articles, half of which are AI generated, and none includes the installation instructions for a specific operating system, let alone a Linux distribution. But I have already done too much reply-guying here, apologies. @jalefkowit I think the actual problem is that KeepassXC has all these features in a single package. If it could be restructured to support modules/plugins, they could be packaged separately and you could install exactly what you need.  @Rhababerbarbar @jalefkowit @njoseph @keepassxc no. KeepassXC is a program a normal user should install and it should do everything a modern password manager is expected to do, browser auto-fill and many of those features are a must in today's world. Regular non-technical folks are already *not* using a password manager, those who do, shouldn't be expected to install half a dozen extra things just to have those features @joel I mean copy-pasting the passwords to the clipboard may not be better, that is sure. @njoseph @keepassxc I think the safest-possible version should be the default version for a password manager. Maybe an mp3 player or picture editor has other priorities, but a password manager's central purpos of exiting is security, so it should be as safe as possible *by default*, and you have to go out of your way to add convenience and reduce security. The problem of changing an existing default is a thing, but it's not a big enough problem to justify not doing it.  |
@njoseph @keepassxc I agree with this take