[tex-live] texconfig conf

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:11:24AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> 
> 
> Norbert Preining wrote:
> >On Di, 29 Nov 2011, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> >>>   >   Hi, When I run texconfig conf I obtain no information whether I run
> >>>   >   it as root or not,
> >>>
> >>>Why should it tell you who you are?  TeX Live doesn't make any attempt
> >>>to find this out.
> >>
> >>Er, that is not what Ernesto probably meant, although I
> >>can see that some might misunderstand him.  I would
> >>re-cast his words as :
> >>
> >>
> >>>   >   Hi, When I run texconfig conf I obtain no information whether
> >>>   >   or not I run it as root.
> >
> >And the answer remains the same,
> >	Why should tlmgr/texconf/whatever tell you that you are running
> >	as root. That you *definitely* should know yourself, and if
> >	you do NOT know, you should NOT be root!
> 
> Two non-native speakers, both convinced that they know
> what a third non-native speaker means.  A third, who
> is a native speaker, believes that Ernesto means :
> 
> >>>   >   Hi, When I run texconfig conf I obtain no information.
> >>>   >   It does not matter whether or not I run it as root.

And a fourth non-native speaker agrees with the third native speaker :)

Regards,
 Khaled