Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 22:23 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : > Frank Küster wrote: > > > In the particular case, the reason is something else: If the recommended > > package B (tetex-bin) is there, it makes sense to run one of its > > executables (mktexlsr, updmap) to register the files of package A (any TeX > > font package). This is a time-consuming process. However, if B is > > installed but unconfigured, we can save this time because when B is > > configured, it will run these executables, anyway, and doing this also > > will pick up package A's files. Isn't it possible to run a consistency check, to know whether it is necessary to re-run mktexlsr/updmap before actually running them? > Sounds to me like package B should be performing these optimizations, > not package A. As there can be several "packages A", this is the kind of thing that should be done in all their postinsts. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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