[tex-live] pretest: epstopdf overwrites existing files

[Angelo Graziosi]

Karl Berry wrote:

> My understanding of the results are that:
> 
> 1) user has both foo.eps and foo.pdf (created in whatever way): Their
>    foo.pdf gets used.  Nothing is generated.
> 
> 2) user has only foo.eps: foo.SUFFIX.pdf gets generated, and used.
>    foo.SUFFIX.pdf is not regenerated unless foo.eps changes.
> 
> 3) if the user does some manual tweaks on foo.SUFFIX.pdf and copies it
>    to foo.pdf, then once again foo.pdf will be used (and not overwritten).

What is the final decision? The current TL2009 converts 
*unconditionally* the .eps files into -epstopdf.pdf files, even if .pdf 
files already exist and are older than .eps. Is this to be expected?


Cheers,
Angelo.