On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Michael J. Hammel wrote: > Thus spoke Marc Lehmann > > This is not at all a distribution issue. Linux is a *multi*-user system, so > > there is not much sense in tailoring the number of installed plug-ins to the > > needs of, say, the admin. > > Playing the devils advocate here, you could also say there is not much > sense in tailoring it for a multi-user system if many of your users are > using it on a single user box. It's a reasonable argument, but there isn't > a good answer for it. From my point of view, Gimp is not a multi-user tool > (even if it can run happily on multi-user systems) so should be packaged > for single users. University admins would probably argue otherwise. Why yes, admins (like me) generally don't like things that are packaged for single users. I suppose I don't care much about whatever packaging changes are made, as long as I can still install the gimp (and plug-ins, and data, and whatever else) in some system-wide location, and as long as users can still put extra bits and pieces in their .gimp directory. Being an admin lets me see a variety of interesting things, such as the guy who ran gimp for the first time, and chose [Ignore] in the gimp installation dialog, and then told me that gimp didn't work right. Why is ignore an option? It doesn't seem to provide anything other than a quick way to make the gimp not work; unless it has some sort of use, it should probably be taken out. later, Andrew Kieschnick
