On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > I don't even remember in which bug we discussed it (probably it was in
> > connection with jadetex), but does anybody remember any serious
> > arguments against the quick-and-dirty solution of removing the old
> > formats in /var/lib/texmf/web2c?
>
> Another suggestion: Only remove the latex and pdflatex format files.
> This really is only a problem with jadetex as it uses the latex format
> in its initialization.
texlive packages now call
rm -f /var/lib/texmf/{latex,pdflatex}.{fmt,log}
before calling fmtutil-sys --all.
Best wishes
Norbert
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