On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote: > etc. Please consider that most installations prepare latex.fmt > with English, German, French. (To be exact, we introduced in TeX Live6 > the new concept of installation which prepares latex.fmt according > to selected `language collection', but it is not yet implemented in > teTeX, MiKTeX, TeX in Linux distributions, etc.)
BTW this is something I was going to send as a change request to Debian. There should be either a debconf screen for selecting hyphenation patterns and default metafont mode and the system default for paper size should be imported. Or texconfig should be run as part of package configuration. Or at least a message should be displayed that running texconfig is a necessary step to make the system really usable (think of an administrator who does not know TeX but his users do). M.
