On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Thomas Esser wrote: > > I have tried to understand how texconfig works if a user invokes it. As > > far as I can see, for every configuration file they touch, a copy is > > generated in TEXMFCONFIG (which is $HOME/.texmf-config by default). > > Right. > > > This seems to have the (probably unwanted effect) that the user is thus > > cut-off from site-wide changes. > > The same is true if some user puts a custom copy of koma-script into > his $TEXMFHOME. > > > If a user changes a configuration file $cfile for the first time, the > > changed file after "check_out" is not only copied or cat'ed to > > $TEXMFCONFIG/$relDir/$cfile, but additionally a diff or the change regex > > Well, this sounds like a complicated solution (different config files > would need different kind of updates) with a questionable effect.
What would help is some tools to check for duplicates across all the texmf trees so at least you can more easily determine when things in $TEXMFHOME or $TEXMFLOCAL have become older than versions in updated system trees. -- George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 189 Parklea Dr., Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia B3Z 2G6
