Hi Joachim,
> Anyway, having this correspondence in the Debian
> data base may help others who will run into the
> same problem.
As said, this is very cryptic in particular on an SSD. I am running
several (>3) systems and in none of them this behaviour is shown.
I don't have more guesses than what was discussed in the dpkg bug.
> Could you possibly give me a short hint how to
> use "eatmydata" to switch off fsync?
Try
eatmydata dpkg -i ..../texlive-fonts-extra....deb
and see if this makes it faster. It disables all fsync calls.
> And one more question: Isn't texlive-fonts-extra
> too big? Why not split it into a few topical
> packages, like math, greek, asian, ...
We already have about 50 TeX Live packages, and the split is according
to what upstream does. For complexity reduction reasons I contemplated
one single package with all of TeX Live containing 4Gb of package ...
Best
Norbert
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