On Wed, OcFt 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX. > Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time > - and these directories contain configuration options which might cause > trouble, since they are not updated or subject to dpkg conffile > questions when the package changes configuration options. It might be a > good thing to require such tools to have a commandline switch or obey a > commandline variable that prevents this. Alternatively, HOME could be > set to the temporary build directory, so that everything happens there.
It seems to me that a package build should not * depend on $HOME not containing reasonable settings * change anything in $HOME If the package runs some program which spews droppings all over $HOME, or which might malfunction if the user has an unusual personal configuration, then it should set $HOME itself. Ian.
