On Saturday 30 October 2004 12:17, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > I still consider it bad design. Even though I understand the reasons.
>
> Sorry - that statement's ambiguious.  What's the "it" that you are refering
> to?

Sorry, it in this case is those packages providing their own management 
system, often in effect meaning that the security is worse than that of 
windows. Applications should allways be able to run when they are not 
owned/writeable by the user that runs them.

Paul

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