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Bug#207742: tetex-extra: shoudldn't mktexlsr run unconditionally during configure?



Hi Hilmar,
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:17:17PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 29.08.03 Guido Guenther (agx@debian.org) wrote:
> So we should look for the existance of
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf instead of /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf .
> 
> > why isn't mktexlsr run in that case?
> > 
> Well, cause after that check we also call fmtutil, which needs
> fmtutil.cnf . That should have failed to, you don't have format files
> for metapost, omega, lambda...
Well this doesn't fully answer my question. I saw the call to fmtutil
and the check (also with the wrong path atm) makes sense for that, but
why is this also needed for mktexlsr, shouldn't this be called
unconditionally?
Regards,
 -- Guido

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