[Fedora-packaging] tetex packaging question

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 12:00 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:56:27 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 22:10 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thirdly - the package in the Makefile wants to put its .cfg files
> > > in /usr/local/share/latex2rtf
> > > I'm instead putting them in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latex2rtf
> > 
> > OK - that's clearly wrong, it causes latex to complain - so /usr/share
> > is better.
> > Interestingly - latex2rtf segfaults if gnuplot is involved (unless you
> > just include the image) - so my interest in latex2rtf just decreased ...
> 
> ".cfg files"? Putting configuration files below /usr/share looks
> like a strange decision. If these are really configuration files which
> may be modified, they should go into some /etc directory rather than
> into a tree which may be mounted read-only and/or from the network.
> 

They look more like language support files to me - snippet of welsh.cfg

# Created using babel.pl from version 3.7 of the Babel system
# by Scott Prahl Tue Jul  3 22:26:17 2001
PREFACENAME,Rhagair.
REFNAME,Cyfeiriadau.
ABSTRACTNAME,Crynodeb.
BIBNAME,Llyfryddiaeth.
CHAPTERNAME,Pennod.

etc.