texconfig should not stop when unimportant files are missing

Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Küster <[email protected]> writes:

    > 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 )

I removed texmf/xdvi/XDvi and both, xdvi and texconfig worked properly.
Did you get an error message? 

    > [...] but I wouldn't be surprised if such a user does a 
    > rm -rf /etc/X11 if he finds this directory.

Use rm -rf with care.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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