Idea #10098: Delay mktexlsr during installation of a LaTeX distribution

When installing a package like texlive-full or tetex-full, hundreds of packages that are included in those LaTeX distributions are downloaded, uncompressed and configured.

Each time a package is configured, "mktexlsr", which does nothing else than "ls -R" on the whole LaTeX directory, is launched.

Then "updmap-sys".

This could be done in the end, after all packages have been uncompressed. Basically, it takes approximately one hour to configure a LaTeX distribution when it could take one or two minutes.

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