Hi, > There are reasons for me to do it this way. I don't think the GIMP > developers list is that interested in what those reasons are, and I'm > sorry I distracted you with a little personal detail. > > In any case, there's still the issue of how much space it takes. The > distribution gives people (me, sysadmins, whoever) the option of 55MB > or nothing. > > I'm just suggesting that there are circumstances in which a 7MB > installation is feasible and a 55MB installation is not. It would be > easy to make a minimal installation trivial with a configuration flag, > rather than making each of us go through and delete files (and strip > the binary). Well, you have got the source! If you think it is worth the effort, why don't you edit configure.in and what else is needed and come back with a patch? Eventually we like it so much that it gets included... Salut, Sven