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Difference between 'image-editor' and 'image-manipulation'?

I see Gilles created the tag image-manipulation, and it happens to be used exactly once. I'm wondering if that was an oversight, or if it's supposed to be distinct from image-editor tag.
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What to do about [install] tag?

Some ideas: Rename the install tag, to something like installation? If applicable, get rid of it in favor of package-management or something more specific (apt or yum)? If not, limit it to OS instal …
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Not Root User tag?

One way to determine if a tag is actually useful is to imagine if anyone would subscribe to it (RSS/email). Why would anyone subscribe to this tag is a bit beyond me. Most of the questions here would …
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Disambiguating the cd tag

I think the tag should be killed for this ambiguity thing. Someone who is asking for the cd command should just use the shell tag for example. As for CDs, maybe we should just use something like optic …
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Regarding the [mount] tag

I think it's better to rename mount to mounting. It seems like better english usage to me.
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ban the [limit] tag

As I expected, the tag limit has 0 subscribers, likely because it does not make a lot of sense... it is too general. Can we just ban it.
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Thoughts regarding possibly dependent tags

If I wanted to ask a question about bash, should I also add the tag shell? Similarly, if I were to ask a question about gnome, should I also add the tag desktop-environment?
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Do we need [utilities] tag?

We have a tag named utilities (a symlink to tools). It seems redundant to me. Is there a real need for it? Could someome who cares for it actually write a tag wiki for it?
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Does it make sense to have both 'apt' and 'apt-get' tags?

If we have apt-get, we might as well have apt-cache and apt-cdrom. Maybe we can make these symlinks to apt?
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