Bug#430373: texlive-xetex: no configuration file for xdvipdfmx

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> Package: texlive-xetex
> Version: 2007-11.np.etch.1
> Severity: normal
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:30 +0800, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
>> Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> >AFAIK the fontmap used by xdvipdfmx is configured via the 'f' options
>> >in /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/dvipdfmx.xfg.
>> 
>> In my setup, there is no file /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/dvipdfmx.cfg.
>
> That's the solution. I have dvipdfmx.cfg because I have the dvipdfmx
> package installed. From my point of view it is a bug in the texlive
> packages that they leave xdvipdfmx, which is crucial for xetex,
> without proper configuration file.
>
> I don't know what a good solution here would be, since both dvipdfmx
> and xdvipdfmx need this configuration file. Maybe texlive-xetex should
> depend on dvipdfmx?

I guess that's the best short-term solution.  In the long term, we'll
see how the x* programs will be integrated into existing tools and maybe
will do it differently.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)