Re: texconfig in tetex-3.0 again

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> The problem with that is that all of this clearly violates "a principle
> of the least surprise".  People who over years used 'texconfig'
> "know" how it works and undobtely I am far from the only one who
> fell into that trap.

I was one of them some months ago.


> I understand that things do change but if somebody is trying to use
> 'texconfig' as root then there is currently a really serious chance
> that s/he is attempting a wrong thing.  It does not seem to be a
> very hard to check;  so at least in such situation a warning in a
> style "Are you really sure that you know what you are doing?  Maybe
> you really meant 'texconfig-sys' instead?" could be displayed with a
> possible option that allows to suppress that if trully unwarranted.
> The same goes for other two utilities.  That would go a very long
> way to alleviate the problem.

I agree.

To generate the minimum of confusion, maybe one could have left texconfig 
only for (root) system wide configuration, as it was used since ever, and 
use "texconfig-user" for user configuration...

Fabio