[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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