texconfig should not stop when unimportant files are missing
Frank Küster <[email protected]>
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clone 232725 -1 severity -1 minor severity 232725 important retitle 232725 missing dependency on dialog|whiptail retitle -1 texconfig should not stop when unimportant files are missing forwarded -1 [email protected] tags -1 upstream thanks Hi Thomas, hi teTeXnicians, hi Lars, texconfig is quite strict in it's checking whether files are available. We found this out because Lars had messed up his /etc/X11 directory and therefore lost /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi (in Debian: ls -l /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi .. /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi -> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi ) There was no copy left kpathsea could find, and therefore texconfig refuses to do anything. I think that texconfig should issue a warning in this (and similar) cases, but not fail completely. This might be especially important if somebody configures --without-x. I don't know whether XDvi is installed at all in this case, but I wouldn't be surprised if such a user does a rm -rf /etc/X11 if he finds this directory. What do you think? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie