On Fre, 13 Jul 2007, Jonathan Fors wrote:
> Problem is that there are a bunch of languages that are upgraded, I'm
> counting >20 and still updating them. All of the packages rebuild the
> databases, and each rebuild takes some time.
> There should be a way to do all rexlive-lang updates first and then run the
> database rebuild once. (This should also be applied to fonts btw)
Unfortunately this is currently not possible. See Debian bug report 375922
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375922
and especially Florent's explanations.
What you *COULD* do is *remove* those packages not needed. They were
probably pulled in by the new tetex-extra transitional package. If you
remove tetex-* and install only those languages/hyphenation patterns you
need it will be better.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vienna University of Technology
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