Hi Ken, I've been looking into the TeXlive postinstall scripts since just running these takes over an hour in my installation. As it turns out, one can remove most of the churn by organising things a little bit differently and collect the arguments into a single invocations of the commands (only fmt-util can't do this). This gets the postinstall runtime down to just 5 ½ minutes, so I think it is well worth the small effort. I've created a patch package for my installation:
$cygwin=http://cygwin.stromeko.net/ wget $cygwin/release/zzz_texlive-postinstall/zzz_texlive-postinstall-00001-1-src.tar.bz2 wget $cygwin/release/zzz_texlive-postinstall/zzz_texlive-postinstall-00001-1.tar.bz2 wget $cygwin/release/zzz_texlive-postinstall/setup.hint The patch package overwrites the old postinstall scripts (that is also why the name starts with "zzz") and drops a new postinstaller that takes care of all requests that the packages have dropped into /usr/share/texmf-dist/postinstall. I've chosen to re-create all format files at each run so the result will be consistent no matter what state we start from, but conceivably one could just create the missing ones and save three or four more minutes. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf Blofeld V1.15B11: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada