Re: Nasty surprise with updmap-sys

On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:08:05AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> to avoid such surprises in the future, please read the documentation.

Yeah?  And what in particular you would recommend to read?  Keep in
mind that with a few thousands software packages around you may be
for a long read.  Something which is known as "the principle of the
least surprise" has some merits.

> I don't know what you expect, but I expect that a new version of teTeX
> will not overwrite my local configuration.

There is a huge difference between _me_ adjusting a configuration,
locations in particular, of some system and things quietly changing
behind my back.  If this is beyond your comprehension then you are
not qualified for a discussion about administering anything but your
personal machine.

> And how do you modify files in texmf and texmf-dist if these
> directories are on a read-only file system?

What this has to do with anything?  It is clear from this comment
that you understood very little from what I wrote.  I am perfectly
aware for years that teTeX has facilities to adapt a configuration
to many circumstances and layouts.  What I dislike is when it does
such adjustments on its own.  Yes, I do try to check results.  How
do you think I become aware that something is different?  It is hard
to second-guess, correctly, every time.

   Michal