Bug#76671: #76671 inadequate specification of texlinks
On 10.11.00 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
Dear Atsuhito-san,
10 years ago you submitted this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/76671
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20000807
> Severity: wishlist
>
> fmtutil and texlinks seem to cooperate with each other
> but I noticed that
>
> - fmtutil can create *.fmt selectively with --byformat
> even if "cnffile" contains many entries,
>
> but on the other hand
>
> - texlinks create every links for the entries listed in
> "cnffile"
>
> I think texlinks should be able to create links selectively
> like 'texlinks --byname alatex blatex' which would create
> links tex->alatex, tex->blatex.
>
> How do you think?
>
The bug was submitted to upstream and Thomas Esser answered after a
short time. Unfortunately the answer was sent to
xxx-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, you probably never got his input.
Here we go:
<snip>
> I think texlinks should be able to create links selectively
> like 'texlinks --byname alatex blatex' which would create
> links tex->alatex, tex->blatex.
If you just want to add one symlink, why use texlinks?
ln -s foo baa
will do the trick.
On the other hand, what is the problem if texlinks recreates the
existing links?
<snap>
Should we continue working on this iussue and forward it to new
upstream? At least the request has not been implemented AFAICT.
Hilmar
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