Bug#402994: use new libpaper hook to track system paper size
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:34 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> > The approach is flawed, however,
>
> That's what occurred to me too while riding my bike to the
> university...
I sometimes think I should spend most of my working hours on my bicycle
with some sort of recording device ... ;-)
> Some remarks:
>
> * I think we shouldn't use the filename /etc/default/tetex: The setting
> will actually also have effect when texlive is installed and used
ACK
> * It would be good if texconfig could be notified that it doesn't need
> to recreate the formats, since we're doing that anyway a couple of
> lines later.
Something like updmap's '--nomkmap'? Sounds good, even though format
creation isn't that time critical. Especially not compared with creating
map files. It doesn't quite fit texconfig's current UI, though.
> I think such an option would even make sense to submit upstream,
> because it is usefull if one wants to change a couple of things at the
> same time, like papersize and hyphenation patterns.
>
> * Generally, we should try to provide the parts that make sense upstream
> as separate patches.
ACK
cheerio
ralf
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