I don't understand your "build settings" comment. Why would there be any build settings originated from a library?
As for "making too many assumptions", it sure would be nice if you could, say, explain yourself instead of just saying I'm wrong and that my wrongness upsets people. Your FAQ link doesn't explain anything.
To explain my side: third-party code tends to be of low quality and interact with other third-party code in interesting ways. When things go wrong, and they always do even with the best programmers and the best code, the more bad third-party code you have, the more you have to dig through to find and fix the fault. This objection largely goes away if you only use dependencies of extremely high quality, but to be brutally honest, there aren't enough such projects out there to be able to make a mess from them.
As for "making too many assumptions", it sure would be nice if you could, say, explain yourself instead of just saying I'm wrong and that my wrongness upsets people. Your FAQ link doesn't explain anything.
To explain my side: third-party code tends to be of low quality and interact with other third-party code in interesting ways. When things go wrong, and they always do even with the best programmers and the best code, the more bad third-party code you have, the more you have to dig through to find and fix the fault. This objection largely goes away if you only use dependencies of extremely high quality, but to be brutally honest, there aren't enough such projects out there to be able to make a mess from them.