Bug#379089: Configuration file shadowed?

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi all!

Short comment from TeX live side, out of St. Moritz before leaving to
mountains:

On Fre, 21 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> - files that can be used to modify the behavior of programs, and/or
> >>   files that make sense to customize site-wide behavior on a multiuser
> >>   system (I just cannot find an example of a file that would only
> >>   fulfill the second half of the sentence)

The texlive packages install their conffiles into /etc/texmf/texlive/...
and link from the /u/s/texmf-texlive tree. The files there are
	dvipdfm.cfg
	dvips/config.*
	dvips/*.cfg
	dvips/alt-rule.pro
	mktex.cnf
	xdvi.cfg
	texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults
So IMHO texlive has most conffiles got right. I would oppose moving all
the map files back to /etc.

Finally one question for us TeX maintainers: Do we now really move the
mktex.cnf to tex-common, ie should I remove the
/etc/texmf/texlive/mktex.cnf and install the file into the
/u/s/texmf-texlive hierachy as an example?

So I am off again for 1 week.

Frank, see you soon, and all the best

Norbert