Re: looking for a TeX guy to (help to) package PassiveTeX

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Atsuhito Kohda 

| From: Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>
| Subject: Re: looking for a TeX guy to (help to) package PassiveTeX
| Date: 19 Jun 2002 08:43:11 +0200
| 
| > Which package should get the serious bug for not preserving user
| > changes in /etc/texmf/texmf.conf?
| 
| None.  No packages own /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf anymore
| in woody but it will be generated with update-texmf.

That does not matter.

| That is, it is not a conffile but a configuration file.

User changes still need to be preserved.  If you were modifying it and
it was a conffile that is also wrong.

| A user should modify files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and
| run "update-texmf" if it is really necessary for him/her
| to do so.

You still need to preserve user changes.  Is this so extremely hard to
understand?  If it's assumed not to be user-editable, it should not be
in /etc.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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