Re: ConTeXt does not execute MetaPost (in debian experimental)

From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt does not execute MetaPost (in debian	experimental)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:15:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110112011544.GA11967@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikKKq_yYp_Hmtu3LjixY0MPcHVNrxCcptFkw-5f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mojca,

On Di, 11 Jan 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > 2010.07.30, according to http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=context
> 
> In that case one should better run mtxrun instead of luatools (they
> are equivalent at the moment, but luatools is becomming obsolete).

Ahhh ... I guess that needs some divine inspiration to know ...

> And yes, texmfcnf.lua should be carefully designed to match the
> structure of texmf trees in debian.

Of course, looking into it I graasped that now.

Why on earth can mtxrun not simply load the main texmf.cnf like
any other program in the TeX world and initialize the values from 
there I ask myself.

I am slowly giving up on ConTeXt. It is changing in arbitrary directions
far too often, and still things like multi-user support are not
here since ages. I know, it is primary Hans' system and it has to
work primarily on his computer, but that means that distributing
it within any distribution system is plain pain :-(

All that of course relates only to MkIV. I guess I will just add
one sentence to the README.Debian:
	MkIV is not suppored on Debian. If you know how to set it
	up you can do it yourself and educate the maintainer,
	otherwise simply use MkII or the ConTeXt minimals.
Sad but true.

All the best

Norbert
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