Well.... as the attached debian bug (and the tex manpage) points out, you can do "tex -ini" as the equivalent. I should think, though, that most folks who actually have to do such things will be somewhat surprised to see initex missing.
In an attempt to discover the discussion in tex-live alluded to in the debian bug thread, regarding the removal of initex, I could only find the following: http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2005-November/009454.html Dunno that it helps much. I suppose the decision is that /normal/ people need not bother with initex (it would typically be used by package installation scripts, if any). The post I cited just above talks about how distribution of initex as a separate /binary/ stopped a long while ago, but I still don't see much motivation for removing the /symlink/; I don't see how removing it adds any benefit whatsoever, whereas it obviously will serve to confuse some folks (such as Luka and myself). Even so, the decision has been made upstream, and I don't see any justification for going to the trouble of maintaining a patch that puts it back in, when there is a clear and simple workaround ("tex -ini"). -- initex link missing https://launchpad.net/bugs/49022 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
