Re: Conffiles and possible conffiles

2005-11-24 Thread Frank Küster
"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you can for example have 4 config sets (each in its own location): > - one with the upstream default values > - one with overrides for upstream settings by maintainer > - one with cdd-overrides for the settings > - one with admin-overrid

Re: Conffiles and possible conffiles

2005-11-23 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 21 November 2005 16:44, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > > on the debian-tetex-maint mailing list we often have problems to decide > > which of the thousands of TeX input files should be treated as > > configuration files - in principle,

Re: Conffiles and possible conffiles

2005-11-21 Thread Frank Küster
Hi all, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We are currently thinking about a >> solution were there would be hardly any conffiles[1], but a local admin >> could put copies of any file he likes into subdirectories of /etc/texmf. >> This wo

Re: Conffiles and possible conffiles

2005-11-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > on the debian-tetex-maint mailing list we often have problems to decide > which of the thousands of TeX input files should be treated as > configuration files - in principle, each of them can be changed in order > to change the behavior of the sys

Re: Conffiles and possible conffiles

2005-11-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:31:22AM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > Hi, > > on the debian-tetex-maint mailing list we often have problems to decide > which of the thousands of TeX input files should be treated as > configuration files - in principle, each of them can be changed in order > to change th

Re: Conffiles and possible conffiles

2005-11-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 21, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do others think? Would it be acceptable Policy-wise to handle > configuration like this? Yes. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Conffiles and possible conffiles

2005-11-21 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, on the debian-tetex-maint mailing list we often have problems to decide which of the thousands of TeX input files should be treated as configuration files - in principle, each of them can be changed in order to change the behavior of the system. We are currently thinking about a solution were