[DVIPDFMx] ebb conflicts with same named file from dvipdfm
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Sat May 31 09:19:42 KST 2008
Hi Jonathan,
(Sorry for the badly delayed response.)
> there is now a conflict since we ship a file for dvipdfm with the
> same name
As you may have gathered from ChoF's message, the goal is to get rid of
the unmaintained and buggy dvipdfm. But I didn't want existing scripts
or procedures that might use ebb to break. Therefore I asked ChoF to
make ebb functionality available in dvipdfmx, as another step towards
eliminating dvipdfm.
So I suggest eliminating the installation of ebb from dvipdfm, rather
than from dvipdfmx. That is what I have done for TeX Live. In next
year's release, I expect to eliminate dvipdfm altogether (and make it a
symlink to dvipdfmx).
Best,
Karl (TeX Live maintainer)
P.S. Just for the record, I think it was actually Matthias's good idea to
have one dvipdfmx executable that can do the bb extraction stuff too :).
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