Re: Conffiles and possible conffiles
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
>> [1] The configuration file snippets in /etc/texmf/*.d/ would be kept, as
>> well as configuration files for tetex-bin's programs.
>
> Do you have a list of *which* files this will be?
I think it was Ralf who first said that the program's configuration
files should stay. For sure this would mean xdvi.cfg, but I am unsure
about dvips and dvipdfm - it would keep dvipdfmx.cfg and all config.*
files in dvips in TEXMFSYSCONFIG.
But that should be all for teTeX; pdfTeX doesn't have a dvips-like
configuration file, but instead reads pdftexconfig.tex which is a TeX
input file and should, IMHO, be treated as all other TeX input files.
> I will do something similar, but put all the config files for TeX live
> programs into /etc/texmf/texlive/... as otherwise there could be a
> problem with config files overlap between the tetex and the texlive
> packages!
I doubt they can be found there - I guess we need to put them into their
respective TDS places.
> I thought about:
>
> dvipdfm/config
> dvips/*
> mktex.cnf
> xdvi.cfg
>
> that would be the same as your files ATM minus the TeX .ini etc files.
The ini files are no longer treated as conffiles; the map files
currently are, but would be removed. Yes, mktex.cnf too, I forgot it in
the list above.
> I guess putting the config files for TeX live into /etc/texmf/texlive
> makes it cleaner.
I don't think so, and I have already written this a couple of days
ago. We would need a setup like
TEXMFSYSCONFIG = /etc/texmf/{tetex,texlive,}
and it would be completely unclear what happens to changed configuration
files (e.g. with texconfig-sys) when the first-in-the-list of the two
coexisting systems is purged. If they are removed, many users will be
confused, because they weren't aware they were only configuring for one
of them - especially since some of the files texconfig-sys acts on come
from tex-common. If the files are not removed, the effective
configuratino files will still be in the directory of the purged
package: equally confusing.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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