On Fre, 29 Sep 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> A general point: Recently I was thinking whether it would make sense to
> change the behaviour of 'format providing packages' such as tetex-base
> or jadetex: Right now they regerenate all formats, even though this is
> not necessary. Why not have them regenerate only those formats they
> actually provide? A simple way to achieve this would be to call
>
> fmtutil-sys --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/foo.cnf
>
> That way these packages would be more self contained and could not get
> as easily broken by other packages. Of course, the 'binary providing
> packages' such as tetex-bin would still have to regenerate all formats.
I just wanted to mention that packages using dh_installtex already work
more or less this way, as the relevant formats are automatically
extracted from the installed files, and only those formats are
generated.
See the currend jadetex eg.
For basic binaries packages (tetex-bin, tl-base-bin, latex*) it is
important to do more things, so dh_installtex will not work.
Best wishes
Norbert
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