On 6/22/2025 5:43 PM, John Was wrote:
> Hello
>
> I completely removed all iterations of texlive from the spare computer
> I'm using for ConTexT (which is quite old - 2013), and reinstalled
> texlive this morning.  I'm still getting the same long list of font
> files being checked, but the run is down to 20 seconds if I log on as
> administrator, and that's just about tolerable for now while I'm
> experimenting.  I may set up on a more modern machine in the fullness of
> time!

it should not regenerate the font database every time; maybe only when a
font is not found by name

luametatex (lmtx) was mostly developped on a 2013 machine and the
current one is a 2018 one ... and the difference is actualy not large

Hans

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