Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - It deprives the local admin of the possibility to remove a conf(ig)file >> >> - In this case, it hides a misconfiguration; format generation during >> configuration of texlive-base-bin (or at least tl-latex-base) should >> not have succeeded in the first place > > Ok, all of them? Currently we have > copy > for the following files: > /etc/texmf/metafont/misc/modes.mf > /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex > /etc/texmf/tex/latex/pict2e/pict2e.cfg > /etc/texmf/tex/latex/contour/contour.cfg > /etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg > /etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg > /etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg > > pdftexconfig.tex and modes.mf should probably be moved (so that format > generation fails), but the other 5 are input files which does not harm > to have them around. Or?
Let's turn the question the other way round: Is there any reason to ship a duplicate in TEXMFDIST? I don't see any, and therefore would drop all of them. But I'm open to learn. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
