On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:47:50AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > 2. During the tetex upgrade I was surprised to see the following: > > > > > > texhash: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R... > > > > > > Debian packages are NOT supposed to muck around in /usr/local!!!!! > > > > I think this stuff is allowed, actually, like that emacs site-lisp whatever > > it is... if anything, several packages do it, it can't be harmful. (Can it?)
It seems to me that the script assumes that the admin would have used texhash/mktexlsr to generate the ls-R file anyway, so it does it instead. If that assumption is wrong, which seems likely, then I guess you can file a critical bug against the package (`makes unrelated software on the system break'). I commented hastily and without thinking it through, sorry. > > > Is there any reason that we can't include progeny's version of Mozilla in > > > Debian Woody until such time as our maintainer delivers his release. > > ~~~~~ sid/unstable > > > > FWIW I agree... so what if the package is not tiptop, it's good enough for > > unstable. > > Well, I don't know where you get the "not tiptop" from. The Progeny > release has a working psm and the release in Debian doesn't. Which one is > not "tiptop"? It's a 9 MB package that takes over 26 MB of disk space to install, surely that's not the best way to package it. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
