Re: TL2012 status 2012-02-28

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> > Why are you strongly *against* transition away form it?
>> 
>> One the one hand, I fear that things might break (where "things" are
>> most problably other TeX-related packages).  On the other hand
>
> What for example? Which other package is tinkering with texmf.cnf?
> ANd anyway, *most* packages have to be rebuild anyway for the new
> updmap.cfg handling in dh_installtex.

Once upon a time, jadetex did to our surprise.  But in fact - nowadays
there are hardly any TeX-related packages that aren't in our repository
or we at least know well what they are doing.

> Honestly, sometimes one has to break with that. ANd we are not the only
> ones. I have often seen local config files changed and everything
> dropped. Giving a warning is enough for my taste.

I understood that it's as easy as moving lines from files
/etc/texmf/texmf.d.disabled to /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf?  Then I
agree.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
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VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)