[tex-k] Updmap-sys does not leave out MAP file fragments in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap-local.cfg

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-06-14 at 22:22:26 +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:

 > 
 > Am 14.06.2011 um 20:58 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
 > 
 > > If one wants to disable outline fonts, the best solution is to
 > > uninstall them.
 > 
 > TeX Live has become a package managed system. This means that you  
 > can't easily remove some (font) package. If it's a font package that  
 > you remove, then the "text" package that uses it, depends on it and  
 > does allow its removal. Then you would also need to remove the doc and  
 > the "text" package, but some scheme or whatever depends on it.
 > 
 > No. The way the TeX Live packages are organised and made dependent is  
 > obviously optimised for the package packers, not for the strange  
 > users, of which I am one. (I have practical experience, I tried that,  
 > maybe in 2008.)
 > 
 > 
 > > Simply removing map entries leads to a broken
 > > installation.
 > 
 > IMO the installation becomes broken when you forcibly remove some  
 > package. Proof: tlmgr complains!
 > 
 > 
 > I am not interested in Vietnamese, Chinese, this or that, "quasi"  
 > fonts for example. I just wanted to make updmap's life easy (and its  
 > running time minimal). So I disable some fonts via their MAP file  
 > fragments. And I am doing this with /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ 
 > web2c/updmap-local.cfg because in TeX Live 2010 it worked fine (and  
 > particularly very fast, not needing to invoke 'updmap-sys --disable  
 > <some MAP file fragment>' 50 times manually or with a lengthy shell  
 > script; and every year), and I think automatically.
 > 
 > What else is the purpose of this file? (Making local MAP file  
 > fragments for locally installed fonts known.) Setting the options for  
 > the 35 LaserWriter fonts and for downloading or not the 14 PDF fonts?  
 > Setting this does not really work well, because tlmgr now (?) does not  
 > generate the "localised" files, at least not automatically, and when  
 > needed, i.e., when updmap-local.cfg is younger then the updmap.cfg  
 > files updmap works with.

The purpose of the file is to add map entries for locally installed
fonts, not to misconfigure the system.  Nevertheless, isn't updmap
fast enough now?

Regards,
  Reinhard

 > Regarding the syntax used in updmap-local.cfg: last year (or earlier?)  
 > the documentation did not give exact hints.

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