lylejk wrote:
Maybe a separate app; I'm still uncomfortable getting G'MIC updates but I trust David; that trust was years in the making, ofnuts. Still, the updates handled within the plugin itself. Would like to keep such things isolated from the program as much as possible, but still, such things are always a target for hackers if it ever becomes worth their time to exploit. Keeping an eye on the program below, but I've not installed it yet.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgei/?source=directoryTrust: takes 5 years to earn it, and 5 seconds to lose it.
What I don't like in these central repositories is that decisions about software I run aren't mine. What if there is a bug that only impacts me in the new version? How can I go back? Can I keep a plugin even after the author "disowns" it? The "free (software) world" has been laughing while Win7 users where all forced to play (and mostly lost) "wack-a-win10-update", but not so long ago Firefox users were all told that the shiny new Firefox version that auto-installed would disable all their add-ons because they were incompatible with the new version...