Re: required formats for tetex (was Re: Bug#27447: tetex-base: new upstream version available)
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:27:01PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> So, which formats do you consider to be important for the defaults?
This is my preference:
All packages that install TeX formats (including tetex-*), do in
postinst a 'fmtutil -byfmt blah' for every format they include.
Ideally there would be a tetex-bin-based utility to add formats to
fmtutil.cnf, so the packages use it. This way we get best of both
worlds:
+ texconfig init and fmtutil -all really remake *all* formats
+ no formats are made twice during install and upgrade.
I realise that implementing the fmtutil.cnf utility may be too much to
ask before the freeze, so for now I'd put all common formats
(certainly everything in tetex-* and in jadetex) to fmtutil.cnf and
use 'fmtutil -byfmt blah' in postinst. The config util should
probably come in the next release for the next unstable.
> I would put the following in the next release:
>
> tex
> latex
> amstex
> pdftex
> pdflatex
> etex
> elatex
> lambda
> omega
+ jadetex and its pdftex companion, for slink. When the fmtutil.cnf
is in place, you should probably disable all of them by default, and
add all formats on the fly in the postinsts.
The config file affects all fmtutil operations (I just checked), so
before there is an util to dynamically add and remove entries, the
list should preferably be very comprehensive.
Antti-Juhani
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