Bug#420139: Drop copies of conffiles in TEXMFDIST

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> - 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?

Let's turn the question the other way round:  Is there any reason to
ship a duplicate in TEXMFDIST?  I don't see any, and therefore would
drop all of them.  But I'm open to learn.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)