From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 01:45:07 +0200
> >> Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In this case, administrator should modify TEXINPUTS.latex in > > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf and run update-texmf once. > > Generated texmf.cnf should be the same as an old one. > > What makes you think that special casing the Debian installations is > something that every system administrator is willing to do? > > I'm not saying that your solution is bad. It is fine as a generic > solution in the context of Debian, but it is not the only one. > > > > Now image this: there's security upgrade for tetex-bin and the > > > poor fool has a cronjob that installs it. After its installation, > > > the local texmf.cnf is trashed. > > > > the local texmf.cnf is not trashed if administrator acted as above, > > only once. > > That might be something the _system_ _administrator_ does not want to > do, for whatever reason, and that's none of _your_ bussiness. Repeat > this until you get it: "It's _his_ system, not mine." So, in short, it is possible to generate compatible texmf.cnf if the admin worked hard but if not, generated texmf.cnf is not compatible with non-Debian system. If so, I can understand. > > Am I missing something? > > The forest for the trees, yes. > > The point at discussion is simple: you can't blow away local changes > _without_ asking, and that's precisely what tetex-bin is doing. The > scope of the local changes is not your bussiness. Your only concern > should be "do I have permission to do this or not?" The default is > "no, I do not". Okay, I guessed that the old /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf was a conffile but the current one is a configuration file so it's okay only reserving the old file as texmf.cnf.dpkg-old and explain how to migrate to the new scheme in README.Debian but it seemed there are many members who disagree. So I decided to stop generating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf but generate directly /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf which is not a conffile nor a configuration file so no policy violation occured any more. The current texmf.cnf is not human editable but only generated file so it would be appropriate to put it under /var Thanks, 2003-4-22(Tue) -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
