Bug#28838: marked as done (tetex-bin: fork initex to background on install)
Your message dated Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:09:44 +0100
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and subject line Re: tetex-bin: fork initex to background on install
has caused the Debian Bug report #28838,
regarding tetex-bin: fork initex to background on install
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 0.9.981008-3
Severity: wishlist
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
An option to fork this into the background would be nice...
Cheers
Adrian
Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@uk.ibm.com>
Internal: 7-245528 External: 01962-815528
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- To: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@uk.ibm.com>, 28838-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: tetex-bin: fork initex to background on install
- From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:09:44 +0100
- Message-id: <20091227190944.GC2476@PC23>
- In-reply-to: <19981102165811.A2388@bridgett.@>
- References: <19981102165811.A2388@bridgett.@>
On 02.11.98 Adrian Bridgett (bridgett@uk.ibm.com) wrote:
Hi Adrian,
11 years ago you submitted this bug report and didn't even get an
initial response. I'm sorry for this!
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
>
> An option to fork this into the background would be nice...
>
I don't think that putting initex in the background is a good idea.
This initex creates the format files needed to properly run nearly
all flavours of TeX. Hence the format creation is an important step,
which must run successfully before you can use your TeX installation.
Meanwhile we're using triggers to make the steps needed during set up
of packages more efficient: when installing a few packages at one
time the fmtutil runs only 1 time.
I guess we can close the bug. Again sorry for the long response time!
Hilmar
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