[tex-live] files generated by fmtutil/updmap -- platform independent?
T T
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Fri Aug 20 12:09:11 CEST 2010
On 20/08/2010, Edd Barrett <vext01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:18:37AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Do, 19 Aug 2010, Karl Berry wrote:
> > > Neither of them are *package* independent. If you let your users choose
> > > which packages are installed, e.g., which fonts, then your map file
> > > won't be accurate. OTOH, the extra entries won't cause any harm that I
> > > can think of.
> >
> > Yes, exactely. Please take care not to mess that up. Last time you installed
> > the config.ps and updmap.cfg file as distributed but not all fonts
> > were installed.
> >
> > *IF* you have several different packages (like we do have in Debian),
> > you *HAVE* to have an automatism that activates/deactivates the map file
> > in updmap.cfg and calls updmap-sys afterwards.
> >
> > This is done in TL proper within tlmgr, and in Debian in the postinst of
> > the packages, or better now triggered automatically.
>
>
> This is what we want to try and avoid, as for users on slow machines (some crazy
> people use texlive on their PDAs) it takes forever.
>
> Seeing as we only have 2 texmfs that would install any fonts, I hope to be able
> to pre-generate the 2 configurations for those (along with ls-R etc...). Any
> further comments on this?
If the target configuration(s) are basically frozen, i.e., no adding
or removing new packages, then I think this is fine, otherwise I would
follow Norbert's advice (and there is no one more qualified to give
such advice than Norbert).
Cheers
Tomek
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