[tex-live] Incompatible geometry.sty changes

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at freenet.de
Sun Aug 30 10:43:25 CEST 2009


Am 30.08.2009 um 07:11 schrieb Vladimir Lomov:

> 1. You post message to wrong mailing list, may be comp.text.tex will
> be more suitable

I am complaining that TeX Live is distributing a non-functional  
software. I don't have a problem with TeX.

> 2. You not read documentation of geometry package, there were changes
> made from 2 to 3 version.

These changes are elder than TeX Live 2007.

> 3. (I don't have now access to TeX Live 2007 package database but) You
> don't give information about geometry version in TeX Live 2007.
> Version in TeX live 2009 is 4.2 dated by 2008/12/21, in TeX Live 2008
> version is 3.2 dated by 2002/07/08.

Here it is:

	 *File List*
	 minimal.cls    2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
	geometry.sty    2002/07/08 v3.2 Page Geometry
	  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
	geometry.cfg
	 ***********

In TeX Live 2008 I did use tlmgr a few times to update, and so I get:

	 *File List*
	 minimal.cls    2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
	geometry.sty    2002/07/08 v3.2 Page Geometry
	  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
	geometry.cfg
	 ***********

It's the same! So I checked geometry.cfg. My TL '07 distribution is  
on an external disk and has /Volumes/extern/usr/local/texlive/texmf- 
local/tex/geometry-neu/geometry.cfg, which contains one line:

	\ExecuteOptions{a4paper}

(I don't know where it comes from.) So obviously tlmgr needs to do  
something with /usr/local/texlive/<year>/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ 
geometry/geometry.cfg, which already has

	%\ExecuteOptions{a4paper}

when a default paper format is set.

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   Pete

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