Bug 72372

Summary:	Latex FHS violation texmf.cnf
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Grant <davidgrant>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Text-Markup Team (OBSOLETE) <text-markup+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Grant 2004-11-24 10:37:22 UTC

I'm sure that the placement of this file does not comply with FHS:

/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

Relevant parts from FHS:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA
"Any program or package which contains or requires data that doesn't need to be modified should store that data in /usr/share"

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION
"The /etc hierarchy contains configuration files. A "configuration file" is a local file used to control the operation of a program; it must be static and cannot be an executable binary."

Comment 1 David Grant 2004-11-24 10:39:35 UTC

Also, clearly Gentoo cares about FHS since a recent weekly newsletter mentioned that portage is now FHS compliant and it looks like some work was put into making it so.
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20041021-portage51.xml

Having texmf.cnf in /etc/ means it will get backed up by my daily backup script which backs up /home /usr/share/local and /etc

Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-24 13:30:50 UTC

>Also, clearly Gentoo cares about FHS

Tell this all the decelopers of software, who not care... ;)

Comment 3 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-24 17:35:53 UTC

This is taken care of in >=tetex-2.96 (aka
teTeX-beta, which is going to be released
at the end of this year). I will not fix it in 
<tetex-2.96. See also bug #56440 and
bug #60845.