On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:50:02AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > In packaging the cm-super fonts, i.e. repackaging the pts-tetex-cm-super > package, we have two options: > > 1) Install all font files (*.pfb) as is > > 2) Install a compressed definition file and create the pfb files > at package installation time, then deleting the definition file.
Welcome back from holidays! I will pester you with a lot of texlive questions/problems/... soon :-) Back to your question: I personally hate files that are not under dpkg control, because you cannot check using debsums, dpkg -L, dpkg -S, etc. That said, a lot of packages act that way, e.g. Python and Emacs compile their .py and .el files into .pyc/.pyo and .elc files at installation time. AFAIK, there are plans to register and unregister files with the package management, but currently this is not possible. Conclusion: Go for 2 and hope, that someone implements dpkg file register/unregister some day. But do *not* delete the definition files, so that one can re-create the font files easily without having to do the full re-installation cycly. If I understand you correctly, the definition files are not that huge. Cheers, -- Wolfgang Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
