Salut, ;-) On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:52:16AM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > Right, I already thought about that, and will look into it when sarge is > released. The scheme we'll use in etch to manage .cfg files under > /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ will make it easier.
Do you have an idea of when this will happen? > I don't think I will split the package. ftp-masters don't like to > multiply the number of packages, and they have good reasons for this. I > think it should be possible in postinst/postrm to register/unregister > the fonts for TeX only if the tools are available (and to make the > package installation fail if they are available and running them fails). > If lmodern is installed before teTeX, the latter will run updmap (and I > suppose, also update-updmap before updmap; if not, it should be added), > so it should also work in that case. If the package can be made TeX-independent just by using scripting tricks, then fine. > [ The overhead for non-TeX users should not be that significant. I think > it is mostly due to TFM files, which amount to 2176 Kbytes (counting 4 > Kbytes for small files) according to: Well, still these are two megabytes or data only useful to TeX users. As such, I would find it more intuitive to split the package into an actual font package and a TeX font data package. One could argue that 2 MB is not big deal; however, it is quite significant in the face of the Lout packages `lout' and `lout-common' (a complete alternative to TeX/LaTeX) which weight less than 7 MB on PowerPC. I don't really buy the argument of avoiding multiplying packages, especially since that would be one more package while Debian has thousands of them. > As for the PFA files you mentioned: > 1. They are not shipped upstream; > 2. AFAIK, they don't provide more information than PFB files but take > much, much more space. > > Considering this, I don't see them entering the package anytime soon... You're right. However, my understanding was that only PFA files could be embedded into PostScript files with, e.g. `includeres' (see [1] for instance). I might be wrong though. Thanks, Ludovic. [1] http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/essays/1365.fonts.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
