> Nevertheless, a clear warning when the user-specific texconfig is run > by root seems appropriate: if people set up root-specific defaults for
I hate to make lots of special cases (writable directories, user is root etc.). To consider: - texconfig-sys calls texconfig, so the invocation of texconfig would need to know that root has called texconfig-sys in the first place and not texconfig directly - consider the chain texconfig-sys -> texconfig -> fmtutil; sure, you don't want that fmtutil issues a warning. - root might have read the documentation and set TEXMFVAR / TEXMFCONFIG to something that is useful - making texconfig to prompt for something might break something else - a warning without a prompt almost useless (who reads all the messages that pass along!?) - texconfig is not the only tool to consider So, I don't think that I should do that. Thomas