Hi, On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:55:07AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > which leaves two solutions > * Try to minimize breakage by choosing a default. Results may vary > depending on whether you think breaking one unix guru's sytem is > more important than ten newbies. ;-) > * Don't ask the question. Proposed solutions are ucf and > <[🔎] E19OvQK-0004MW-Sg@mid.downhill.at.eu.org>. Another possibility might > be to simply move /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf to /var if it is not supposed > to be edited. I've suggested it before: why not maintain the auto-generated texmf.cnf in /var, and offer the administrator to symlink /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf to it? This way, the administrator can choose between the dpkg-managed and a manually managed version at any time by simply changing the destination of the /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf symlink to the automatically managed /var/texmf/texmf.cnf or to a hand edited version somewhere else. He can also ignore the mechanism altogether by having his hand managed file as the /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf; dpkg only touches the version in /var so behaviour will be as expected. No merging, no parsing, no complexity, no loss of information, and you can choose between power and user friendliness on a per machine basis. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen emile@e-advies.nl tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl
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