required formats for tetex (was Re: Bug#27447: tetex-base: new upstream version available)

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:
 > 
 >  * The new fmtutil has a config file (fmtutil.cnf) that controls which
 >    formats get remade with 'texconfig init' (which is now equivalent to
 >    'fmtutil --all').  The defaults are hyperconservative IMO (eg. no
 >    pdf*tex or amstex formats are made).
 > 
 >  * The new fmtutil will make it easy to make only the necessary formats
 >    in postinst.  Eg. to (re)make the pdflatex format, just do 'fmtutil
 >    --byfmt pdflatex'.
 > 

So, which formats do you consider to be important for the defaults?

I would put the following in the next release:

tex
latex
amstex
pdftex
pdflatex
etex
elatex
lambda
omega

Christoph