Re: TeX packages

["John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>]

Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:26:29PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:53:17AM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
> > > Is it possible to run mktexlsr and updmap-sys (and, possibly, other
> > > TeX things) just once when installing or removing packages which need
> > > to run them in postinst/postrm? I've been trying to remove some
> > > not-really-needed latex-cjk-* packages to minimize my old
> > > laptop's system installed size, and the removal process appeared to run
> > > for ages...
> > I think these processes could be moved over to dpkg triggers, it just takes
> > someone to do the work.
>
> I think, whatever can be covered by triggers, already is. tex-common has
> trigger support for some time now.
>
> Hauke

I'm not a maintainer but I'd say this.

1) you may do as you said by hand the installer won't mind

2) you could adjust the scripts to check for file existence / newer - the pkg install scripts often 
have such checks - you can adjust them and it should work fine

3) you could mark effected packages Pre-Depends.  however I think your saying each pkg is marked to 
auto-update (for q/a reasons).  it is simply not list aware, there currently isn't a callback to 
rely on (other than a sleeper that waits for completion conditions).  I'm unsure if Pre-Depends is 
always last on remove / fifo filo I mean.

Hope I helped,  John