Bug#69609: Debconfize ls-R permissions?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 05:25:29PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> only ambiguous question.
> 
> It seems that a modern machine has a cpu and/or hard disk 
> with enough high speed so, well, is it really necessary 
> to use ls-R mechanism yet?

You want to have to search the entire texmf tree for every single font
and .tex file on every single TeX run?  Yikes!

   Julian

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