Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Don, 14 Dez 2006, Frank Küster wrote: >> Consequently, the files that are now below /etc/texmf/texlive could be >> at their "ordinary" places instead, >> >> /etc/texmf/texlive/dvips/config.ps -> /etc/texmf/dvips/config > > [...] > >> Maybe shared configuration files are not a bad idea, I should look up >> the Debian Policy about that. > > Sound bad: > --- > 10.7.4. Sharing configuration files > ----------------------------------- > [...] > If two or more packages use the same configuration file and it is > reasonable for both to be installed at the same time, one of these > packages must be defined as _owner_ of the configuration file, i.e., > it will be the package which handles that file as a configuration > file. Other packages that use the configuration file must depend on > the owning package if they require the configuration file to operate. > If the other package will use the configuration file if present, but > is capable of operating without it, no dependency need be declared.
I don't know which programs will not work at all with their configuration files. Some are needed for sure (pdftexconfig.tex), other might be mandatory (config.ps?) > If it is desirable for two or more related packages to share a > configuration file _and_ for all of the related packages to be able to > modify that configuration file, then the following should be done: This is probably not needed except in special cases. For the libpaper thing, we might have to provide a script that does nothing but call the libpaper hook. > So we have three options: > - Move all the stuff to tex-common > - eliminate tetex and move all the stuff from /etc/texmf/texlive/ to > /etc/texmf (and assume we will never get miktex) > - leave it as it is I do not understand which particular problem with Debian Policy we have here, it's just the usual "configuration files require thorough consideration" thing. And I don't have energy for thorough consideration ATM. But we should probably not make any changes wrt libpaper before we have sorted this out (and not for etch, anyway). Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
