Re: [PATCH] Remove absolute paths from gpg.rc
On 2007-03-21 15:35:18 +0000, Dave wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:49:45PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > But a *compile-time* option would be a bad idea, as the one who
> > installs the software is not always the one who uses it.
>
> The one who installs the software should be the system
> administrator, who's (an agent of) the owner of the system. It's his
> domain to make these types of decisions about his system.
A system administrator doesn't always know what he is doing exactly
(with thousands of programs to install, this is not surprising).
And what if users have different wishes? And what about binary
distributions?
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