Indexing fonts
Peter Flynn
peter at silmaril.ie
Mon Jan 23 13:33:45 CET 2023
On 23/01/2023 00:45, Norbert Preining wrote:
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> One more thing I realized concerning Debian installation (Exercise 6.2):
>
> I don't think it makes sense to put the copy into conf.avail and link
> it. I suggest to creating it directly in conf.d.
>
> conf.avail has not functional meaning whatsoever besides making dpkg
> happy. It allows users to activate and deactivate configurations
Right. I was just copying what the system seems to be happy with.
> In our case here, dpkg does not know about 09-texlive.conf nor manages
> it, so putting it directly into conf.d makes everything simpler I think.
Yes, and it avoids an unnecessary step, thanks.
Peter
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