[tex-live] The suggestions (from tex-d-l) (Re: Comment on Re: TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation))

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Wed May 23 13:44:04 CEST 2007


Oliver Bandel <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

>      My idea would be: do we need these tpm-files on disk? Why not
>      reading it to memory, if they are used so often?
> </my_comment>

We do that in our Debian packaging scripts, and Norbert's planned new
texlive infrastructure scripts do the same:

http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/new-infra/read-tpm-dump-tpl.pl?view=markup

(in sub load_collection_tpm_data)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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