While I'm not a fan of this development either, the position w.r.t. darktable was frankly unreasonable: the library in question is not meant to be a system libr

While I'm not a fan of this development either, the position w.r.t. darktable was frankly unreasonable: the library in question is not meant to be a system library. Indeed I believe also digikam had similar problems. Having a modicum of flexibility in this cases may be positive.