[QGIS-Developer] Should --noplugins disable provider plugins as well ?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 04:19:14PM +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> On 9/17/19 4:05 PM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> > 
> > I think that --noplugins should only skip python (and C++?) plugins and
> > frankly I don't see a use case for not loading data providers.
> 
> QGIS is still pretty powerful without plugins. Whereas QGIS is pretty much
> useless without providers.

The use case would be this one I'm reporting: QGIS crashes, and users
are asked to run it in a "simplified" way to check if the crash is due
to some plugins.

> If anything, a --noproviders option could be added, but I wonder if it's
> really worth the effort.

There was another bug report for startup-crash which was filed
on May 21 2019 and never fixed (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/29930)

Anything that can improve debugging could be useful ?

--strk;