On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:34 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > The approach is flawed, however, > > That's what occurred to me too while riding my bike to the > university...
I sometimes think I should spend most of my working hours on my bicycle with some sort of recording device ... ;-) > Some remarks: > > * I think we shouldn't use the filename /etc/default/tetex: The setting > will actually also have effect when texlive is installed and used ACK > * It would be good if texconfig could be notified that it doesn't need > to recreate the formats, since we're doing that anyway a couple of > lines later. Something like updmap's '--nomkmap'? Sounds good, even though format creation isn't that time critical. Especially not compared with creating map files. It doesn't quite fit texconfig's current UI, though. > I think such an option would even make sense to submit upstream, > because it is usefull if one wants to change a couple of things at the > same time, like papersize and hyphenation patterns. > > * Generally, we should try to provide the parts that make sense upstream > as separate patches. ACK cheerio ralf
