Bug#420139: Drop copies of conffiles in TEXMFDIST (was: Issues with and after upgrade to texlive)
On Fre, 20 Apr 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> I do not know. But I think this is one more reason why we should *not*
> ship copies of configuration files in TEXMFDIST, where they will happily
> be picked up if the conffile is removed.
>
> - It deprives the local admin of the possibility to remove a conf(ig)file
>
> - In this case, it hides a misconfiguration; format generation during
> configuration of texlive-base-bin (or at least tl-latex-base) should
> not have succeeded in the first place
Ok, all of them? Currently we have
copy
for the following files:
/etc/texmf/metafont/misc/modes.mf
/etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/pict2e/pict2e.cfg
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/contour/contour.cfg
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg
pdftexconfig.tex and modes.mf should probably be moved (so that format
generation fails), but the other 5 are input files which does not harm
to have them around. Or?
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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