On 7/21/26 12:40 AM, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
Hello Josch,
You are an expert of this package so of course you know what is happening. I'm not and when I'm faced with an installation step that takes more than 20 minutes then yes, I'd like to know what's going on, what is taking so long and if maybe something is broken. Knowing which command is actually being run tells me that it's one command that takes a long time and not a thousand executions which each are short but are being repeated and it allows me to open up the man page to figure out what that tool does to verify that yes, it makes sense that running that command really does takes that long.
As found out, the execution time of your "fmtutil-sys --all" call is quite long.
I do not really know, how to proceed here. I've changed the postinst script to tell, what command is called. I could elaborate a little, what this exactly means, currently is displayed:
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) (by calling "fmtutil-sys --all").This script calls iniTeX for all or added format files. This may take some time...
fmtutil itself does no provide a progress bar nor does it display each iniTeX call one by one. And not, I'm not really willing to implement that.
Let me know your thoughts. Hilmar
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