Re: etex(1) fails to run

>     cd /usr/bin
>     mv etex etex_ && ln -s pdfetex etex

The etex symlink is created by a call to texlinks. texlinks looks at
the list of formats (in fmtutil.cnf) and creates a symlink for each
format name that is mentioned. There is a security feature build into
texlinks, so that it only changes/creates symlinks. It does not remove
real binaries, as in this example:

$ texlinks
install_link failed for /software/oss/Text/teTeX-3.0/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/etex. File already exists.

You installation propably has generated such a message which you did
not notice (well, I see that there are tons of log messages written;
so this is too much to spot such errors).

> Is this a bug in gentoo's ebuild or a tetex bug?

I have no idea... You see my explanation, I don't know if you consider
the behaviour of texlinks a bug or a feature.

Thomas