Re: Bug #92562, xmltex, & texmf.conf

To: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Cc: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug #92562, xmltex, & texmf.conf
From: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
Date: 02 Mar 2002 13:25:06 +0100
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Am Die, 2002-02-26 um 23.59 schrieb Atsuhito Kohda:
> From: "C.M. Connelly" <cmc@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug #92562, xmltex, & texmf.conf
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:40:06 -0800
> 
> > Did we know that xmltex tinkers with /etc/texmf/texmf.conf?
> > Should we be concerned?
> 
> Yes, yes we should be concerned.  We (teTeX) should provide
> some mechanism to handle this kind of problem.
> 
> For example, under the environment I proposed,

Yes your are right. But until we have method for doing this, it is a bug
in all the packages which write in texmf.conf.

Christoph

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