[tex-live] files generated by fmtutil/updmap -- platform independent?

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 19 Aug 2010, Karl Berry wrote:
> Neither of them are *package* independent.  If you let your users choose
> which packages are installed, e.g., which fonts, then your map file
> won't be accurate.  OTOH, the extra entries won't cause any harm that I
> can think of.

Yes, exactely. Please take care not to mess that up. Last time you installed
the config.ps and updmap.cfg file as distributed but not all fonts
were installed.

*IF* you have several different packages (like we do have in Debian), 
you *HAVE* to have an automatism that activates/deactivates the map file
in updmap.cfg and calls updmap-sys afterwards.

This is done in TL proper within tlmgr, and in Debian in the postinst of
the packages, or better now triggered automatically.

Best wishes

Norbert
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