Hyphenation is broken in latex / tetex-latex-0.9-17 as in
RH 6.0.

The issue is that \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin are not
reported properly to latex, although they seem to be in the
config files
at the right values.

The result is hyphenation of the word ``you'' across lines
as in ``y-ou'' for example

This problem did not exist in any previous RH version.  In
fact no errors of any kind have ever been encountered in RH
latex rpms, from 4.1 up until 6.0

Of course, there may be other things broken.


Here is a simple file showing the problem.

\documentclass{article}
\newcounter{LANG}  \setcounter{LANG}{\language}        %
default should be 0
\newcounter{LEFT}  \setcounter{LEFT}{\lefthyphenmin}   %
default should be 2
\newcounter{RIGHT} \setcounter{RIGHT}{\righthyphenmin} %
default should be 3
\typeout{TESTING -hyphenmin.  left is \theLEFT ; right is
\theRIGHT }
\typeout{TESTING language; it is \theLANG }
\begin{document}
Hello, world.  Left is \theLEFT ; Right is \theRIGHT
\end{document}
% Results !
% TESTING -hyphenmin. left is -1; right is 0
% TESTING language; it is 0
%