Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >>> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin >>> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary >>> manually. What should I do in this case? >

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-07 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin >> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary >> manually. What should I do in this case? > > [...] > >> - let libpaper'

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin > might have changed the default paper for one particular binary > manually. What should I do in this case? [...] > - let libpaper's setting overwrite everything: Pr

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-03 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 03 Dez 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > Can the TeX configuration files source other configuration files? Some can some cannot. > If this is the case, can't each of the separate configuration files > source a single file which defines only the papersize? This way No, that is definitely impossi

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Are there any other options? Currently, the configuration files in > question are all conffiles; we'd have to change that, too, I guess. I > have not followed this field in the last years; I guess ucf is still the > method of choice i