Re: texmf.cnf again

2003-06-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:24:38 +0200, Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> My point is that given the way the question is written, its >> priority and default answer seem to counter its purpose. [...] >Given that were the defaults set diffe

Re: texmf.cnf again

2003-06-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:12:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Given that were the defaults set differently this would be a > serious bug, perhaps that says something about the purpose. Come again? Marcelo

Re: texmf.cnf again

2003-06-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:24:38 +0200, Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:01:18AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> It is an either or situation -- give us your configuration files, >> or forever lose out on any configuration change the maintainers do, >> even t

Re: texmf.cnf again

2003-06-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:01:18AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > It is an either or situation -- give us your configuration > files, or forever lose out on any configuration change the > maintainers do, even though that shall break your packages. Sure, I wasn't claiming it's perfec

Re: texmf.cnf again

2003-06-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:18:03 +0200, Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So the gist of that text is: "debian packages can manage the > configuration file by themselves, it's a good idea if they do and > there's a chance something will break unless you really really know > what you a

texmf.cnf again

2003-06-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I don't want to submit a bug since the last time this was discussed it degenerated into a flamewar and from the text I quote below it seems it's an emotionally overloaded issue for you. Installing tetex-bin brings up this: [!] Configuring Tetex-bin Now we can generate texmf.cnf,