[tex-live] PTeX engine

[Norbert Preining]

On Sa, 26 Jun 2010, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> I removed the pTeX based formats from the configuration file (since I  

Which configuration file?

> don't know exactly what pTeX is meant for I assume it's rather useless, 

Well, probably most formats that are shipped for most users, still it
is not the necessary.

Did you remove xetex format when it was introduced?

ANyway, did you disable it via the correct method describe in:
	tlmgr man
	section "action generate"
or online:
	http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#generate__option_____what

If yes, then this is a bug and errors from this should be ingored.

If you edited fmtutil.cnf by hand or keep a local version of it then
we cannot do anything.

> Particularly the use of the word "unsuccessfully" in the last line is  
> not appropriate. I have up-to-date format files, exactly those I wish to 
> have. This deserves the predicate "succesful". And it would not let me 
> fear that something during the update might have failed...

Please again, specify how you disabled and I will check.

Best wishes

Norbert
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