I think the point was that packages from official distro repositories are trusted in dom0 as they are in templates.
They are not. Read the paragraph quoted in the OP.
Given that the QubesOS devs intentionally choose distro versions that have ceased receiving updates, “latest and greatest” with a short lifecycle is what you want.
I don’t know what you are talking about. The info others shared above clarified there were no devs, no intention was explained and nobody was asked “what do you want?”
Simply think about all the hardware issues etc. if an old Debian distro version were used, given their much longer support cycles.
The fact is: in Qubes OS I cannot use a well-known FOSS-friendly hardware, which I have been able to use without issues on 15+ years old computers running other distros (including 32-bit). If hardware utilization is really a priority, this is quite confusing, especially considering all the talk about how careful one should be with USB.
Your links are […]
a short way to avoid off-topic, so you are right:
neither of those are the kind of repos that are relevant to this discussion IMO;
In conclusion these examples have not shaken my trust in the approach used by QubesOS
Since I still haven’t seen the approach explained anywhere, I really don’t know what you mean.