Bug#108703: Unwise TEXCONFIG setting in texmf.cnf

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Judicael Courant <Judicael.Courant@lri.fr>
Subject: Bug#108703: Unwise TEXCONFIG setting in texmf.cnf
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:20:12 +0200

> SUMMARY:
> 
> The following facts
> 
> 1) the config file for dvips is named config.ps
> 
> 2) the default search path for TEXCONFIG (.;$TEXMF/dvips//) in
> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf includes the current directory.
> 
> make dvips fail when applied within a directory containing a
> postscript file named config.ps
> 
> POSSIBLES SOLUTIONS:
> 
> 1) Renaming the extension (.ps) of the config file of dvips to anything
> specific to dvips
> 
> or
> 
> 2) Removing "." from TEXCONFIG's setting.

Well, personally, I think config.ps is a standard name
in many systems, like UNIX, Linux, Win, Mac etc. etc.
So it might cause trouble if only we/Debian will change 
its name locally.  

Uniformity (is this right word?) is important.

And search path including the current directory is very
useful to test config.ps generally.

In my opinion, untill upstream would change config.ps to 
some other name, it might be not so good to change its
name locally in Debian.

# But config.ps might be not so good file name, I agreed.

Best regards,		 2001.8.17

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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