[Fedora-packaging] tetex packaging question

[Michael Schwendt]

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.

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Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
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