> Nevertheless, a clear warning when the user-specific texconfig is run
> by root seems appropriate: if people set up root-specific defaults for
I hate to make lots of special cases (writable directories, user is root etc.).
To consider:
- texconfig-sys calls texconfig, so the invocation of texconfig would
need to know that root has called texconfig-sys in the first place
and not texconfig directly
- consider the chain texconfig-sys -> texconfig -> fmtutil; sure,
you don't want that fmtutil issues a warning.
- root might have read the documentation and set TEXMFVAR / TEXMFCONFIG
to something that is useful
- making texconfig to prompt for something might break something else
- a warning without a prompt almost useless (who reads all the messages
that pass along!?)
- texconfig is not the only tool to consider
So, I don't think that I should do that.
Thomas
