Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 22:23 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : >> Frank Küster wrote: >> >> > In the particular case, the reason is something else: If the recommended >> > package B (tetex-bin) is there, it makes sense to run one of its >> > executables (mktexlsr, updmap) to register the files of package A (any TeX >> > font package). This is a time-consuming process. However, if B is >> > installed but unconfigured, we can save this time because when B is >> > configured, it will run these executables, anyway, and doing this also >> > will pick up package A's files. > > Isn't it possible to run a consistency check, to know whether it is > necessary to re-run mktexlsr/updmap before actually running them?
Such a check wouldn't be faster than running the actual script... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer