Bug#665947: texlive-base: ucf mess with paper sizes
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>> I also think that when those files are generated by tl-paper, they
>> should _only_ contain papersize settings and nothing else, to make it
>> manageable. Or in fact we need to use ucf in tl-paper, which would mean
>> to patch the Perl modules in /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/.
>
> Ouch, even worse.
> - pdftexconfig.tex can be patched to load another file, easy
> - dvipdfmx.cfg I *BELIEVE* can include other config files, but
> I am not sure
> - config.ps: her I am unsure, I don´t think that we can fix that easily
> - XDvi: not possible as far as I see
That's the same situation we faced before we had libpaper support, and
which led to our using ucf.
> How do we do?
Where's the code that actually writes the config files in the TeXLive
modules?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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