Re: Important note for maintainers of packages depending on tetex-bin

["Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:51:09PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:

> Possible causes of failure are:
> 
> - Some packages create formats during building or installation, and have
>   format names hardcoded in them. Because of a switch from TeX to e-TeX,
>   the format names have changed from *.fmt to *.efmt in many cases
> 
> - There might be (font) packages that call /usr/bin/updmap with the
>   option "--outputdir". Since the location of the generated map files
>   has been changed, this will fail to change the actual configuration.
> 
> There might be other changes, but those are the ones we have encountered
> so far.

Another for your list: psfig.sty has been removed.  I didn't find a 
workaround, so geomview no longer ships a manual in PS format ;-(


-Steve