[texdoc] Bug#557861: texdoc and support_zipped

Frank Küster frank at debian.org
Fri Jan 8 21:49:41 CET 2010


Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

> On 5 January 2010 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
>
>  > Hum, that's probably because I always forget they exist :-) Do you
>  > see any practical use case for configuration files here? I'm
>  > slightly reluctant to add yet another level of configuration files
>  > for texdoc...
>
> AFAIK these directories contain only files generated by a program.

No, not "only".  The teTeX manual says about it:

,----
| TEXMFCONFIG The tree specified by this variable will be used by
| teTEX’s utilities texconfig, updmap and fmtutil to store modified
| configuration data.
`----

(and similar for TEXMFSYSCONFIG).  But that implies that user-changed
files there (even files that would be created by texconfig, but have not
yet been) will be respected.  And I know from discussions with Thomas
that the tree was always intended as *the* place for personal or
side-wide configuration changes, respectively.  That's why the tree
comes before anything else.

Manuel, wouldn't it be easier to simply search texdoc.cnf (and
texdoc-bin.cnf or whatever) with kpse.find_file?  I haven't looked into
the code recently, but generally I think if a file looks into texmf
trees, it should use kpathsea in any case, wherever possible.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg



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