Re: ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi Frank,

Frank Küster wrote:
> 
> Are some of the people around who wrote this?  I found some information

I do not use Debian and did not write that page, but I can answer your
questions partially, at least.

> - Is it intended that context formats end up in $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/?
>   If yes, why is that so?  If not, we should rather find out why it
>   happens and fix it.

Yes, it is. ConTeXt does not support only pdfetex, but all major
engines, like XeTeX and Aleph. I have formats in:
	
   $TEXMF/web2c/aleph/
   $TEXMF/web2c/luatex/
   $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/
   $TEXMF/web2c/xetex/

> - Why does it make a difference if the formats are created by fmtutil
>   instead of texexec (Except for the output directory)?  Should the
>   upstream packaging be changed so that fmtutil is never used, but
>   texexec, or should fmtutil be fixed to produce the same as texexec?  

It is almost certainly better to ignore/block fmtutil and use texexec
instead. Properly setting up a ConTeXt update is not necesarily limited
to format generation only.

Greetings, Taco