[texdoc] Bug#557861: texdoc and support_zipped

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Sat Jan 9 00:31:07 CET 2010


On 08/01/2010 21:49, Frank Küster wrote:
> (and similar for TEXMFSYSCONFIG).  But that implies that user-changed
> files there (even files that would be created by texconfig, but have not
> yet been) will be respected.  And I know from discussions with Thomas
> that the tree was always intended as *the* place for personal or
> side-wide configuration changes, respectively.  That's why the tree
> comes before anything else.
> 
So, maybe I should change the search path to add TEXMF(SYS)CONFIG indeed.

> Manuel, wouldn't it be easier to simply search texdoc.cnf (and
> texdoc-bin.cnf or whatever) with kpse.find_file?  I haven't looked into
> the code recently, but generally I think if a file looks into texmf
> trees, it should use kpathsea in any case, wherever possible.
> 
I want to read all teh configuration files, and the kpse Lua library doesn't
provide a way to find all results like kpsewhich's --all option. (I wanted to
request it and even began preparing a patch at some point, then it went out of
my mind.)

Manuel.


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