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Manoj Srivastava
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:00 am    Post subject: Configuration file shadowed? Reply with quote
Hi,

Today, when upgrading my unstable box, I got a debconf message
from the package tex-common, to wit:
“The mechanism of TeX font caching has changed, requiring the
installation of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf. On your
system, /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf exists with possible local
changes, and makes the new file invisible to TeX. Font
caching might not work until the setting of MT_FEATURES has
been transferred to your configuration file.”

What does this imply? Why are configuration files (I am
assuming that something called mktex.cnf is actually a configuration
file) being installed in /usr/share/? What exactly is the usewr
supposed to do, anyway? If nothing, why is there a debconf notice?

manoj
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Frank Kster
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:00 am    Post subject: Re: Configuration file shadowed? Reply with quote
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:

Quote:
What does this imply? Why are configuration files (I am
assuming that something called mktex.cnf is actually a configuration
file) being installed in /usr/share/?

I didn't notice that this was Cc'ed to -devel, and already answered to
Manoj, opening bug report #379089.

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