[tex-k] Updmap-sys does not leave out MAP file fragments in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap-local.cfg

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.06.2011 um 20:58 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:

> If one wants to disable outline fonts, the best solution is to
> uninstall them.

TeX Live has become a package managed system. This means that you  
can't easily remove some (font) package. If it's a font package that  
you remove, then the "text" package that uses it, depends on it and  
does allow its removal. Then you would also need to remove the doc and  
the "text" package, but some scheme or whatever depends on it.

No. The way the TeX Live packages are organised and made dependent is  
obviously optimised for the package packers, not for the strange  
users, of which I am one. (I have practical experience, I tried that,  
maybe in 2008.)


> Simply removing map entries leads to a broken
> installation.

IMO the installation becomes broken when you forcibly remove some  
package. Proof: tlmgr complains!


I am not interested in Vietnamese, Chinese, this or that, "quasi"  
fonts for example. I just wanted to make updmap's life easy (and its  
running time minimal). So I disable some fonts via their MAP file  
fragments. And I am doing this with /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ 
web2c/updmap-local.cfg because in TeX Live 2010 it worked fine (and  
particularly very fast, not needing to invoke 'updmap-sys --disable  
<some MAP file fragment>' 50 times manually or with a lengthy shell  
script; and every year), and I think automatically.

What else is the purpose of this file? (Making local MAP file  
fragments for locally installed fonts known.) Setting the options for  
the 35 LaserWriter fonts and for downloading or not the 14 PDF fonts?  
Setting this does not really work well, because tlmgr now (?) does not  
generate the "localised" files, at least not automatically, and when  
needed, i.e., when updmap-local.cfg is younger then the updmap.cfg  
files updmap works with.


Regarding the syntax used in updmap-local.cfg: last year (or earlier?)  
the documentation did not give exact hints.

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   Pete

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