Dear Luke,
the Debian-Med project prepared Debian packages for EMBOSS explorer. Since we install the perl modules in /usr/share/perl5 and since the Debian policy strongly discourages the placement of configuration files outside /etc/, we patched GUI.pm in order to make it source /etc/emboss-explorer.conf. We suggest you use it in you next release if you like it. You can find the patch in our Subversion repository at the following URL:
In any case, do not hesitate to contact us on our mailing list, debian-med@lists.debian.org
Have a nice day, and many thanks for your nice program. I personally use it and like it a lot.
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Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med