Hi, > Why can't those scripts just _not_register_themselves_ if the required > modules are not available? gimpmagick does this and the only problem > is that it has to be re-probed every time the GIMP starts. The only > reason I can think of to not install these scripts is to avoid the > delay at startup. The delay at startup for probing the scripts would IMHO be very annoying. I don't see why people wouldn't prefer to reinstall the perl parts after they installed missing packages. That's how it works for all other plug-ins (jpeg, tiff, ...). Salut, Sven