Indexing fonts

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Mon Jan 23 13:33:45 CET 2023


On 23/01/2023 00:45, Norbert Preining wrote:
[...]
> One more thing I realized concerning Debian installation (Exercise 6.2):
> 
> I don't think it makes sense to put the copy into conf.avail and link
> it. I suggest to creating it directly in conf.d.
> 
> conf.avail has not functional meaning whatsoever besides making dpkg
> happy. It allows users to activate and deactivate configurations

Right. I was just copying what the system seems to be happy with.

> In our case here, dpkg does not know about 09-texlive.conf nor manages
> it, so putting it directly into conf.d makes everything simpler I think.

Yes, and it avoids an unnecessary step, thanks.

Peter


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