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Re: Triggerizing texlive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Mar 10 15:09:19 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:08:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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You should get in contact with the Debian texlive maintainer. I would be
much happier about deploying this kind of solution if it was effectively a
backport of what Debian sid was doing, for example.
-Tim Abbott
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > I think texlive is its own problem, and we should fix it differently
>
> I've been working on solving this problem, mostly as a proof-of-concept.
> I have a package that will "triggerize" texlive - i.e. make it use
> triggers without any alterations to the upstream package.
>
> The source tarball is at
> </mit/broder/Public/debathena-triggerize-texlive_1.0.tar.gz>. An example
> install log with this package installed is at
> </mit/broder/Public/debathena-triggerize>.
>
> Note that musixtex and texlive-music still seem to have called mktexlsr
> directly (which is the part that takes forever). The next step to make
> this more awesome is to accumulate the arguments passed to mktexlsr
> instead of only triggerizing if they match a specific string of arguments.
>
> I think this package should also work on platforms that don't have
> triggers, but I haven't tested it. We could conceivably deploy this as a
> pre-dependency of debathena-cluster, or if we're feeling like really
> awful people, debathena-extra-software. I don't know if we want to do
> that or not.
>
> - Evan
>
