Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

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

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:24:47 -0500

>  > Note users can add local modification freely with the current
>  > method, please read README.Debian.
> 
> 	But an admin may no longer freely synchronize the conffile
>  across the whole heterogeneous installation. This assumption that all
>  the world is Debian, and introducing gratituous incompatibility with
>  the rest of the TeX world is what smacks of bad design decisions.

I don't understand why you say "an admin may no longer 
freely synchronize the conffile"?

At least texmf.cnf of our system might be the most standard
one in the world, even if a user added local modifications 
through correct way as update-texmf provided.

As I wrote in former email, other systems, like FreeBSD
and/or RedHat, might use non-standard texmf.cnf because of
lack of an appropriate tool but then there is no need to
synchronize with them, IMHO.

Thanks,				2003-4-21(Mon)
-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.