>> For now I'll add a hint to the docs, when this is OK by you.
>
> Yes, please add a note that g-brief and the current version of marvosym are
> incompatible. We could also add a similar note to the g-brief templates.
I'll wait for a reply of the marvosym-maintainer before I proceed.
> BTW I think the best solution would be to hassle the marvosym.sty maintainer
> with bug reports and pleas to change the \newcommand's in marvosym.sty to
> \providecommand's.
I did this now and sent him a patch to fix marvosym.sty. The problem is indeed that the new marvosym
maintainer changed the command definitions from \providecommand to \newcommand with the actual
release from 2006.
regars Uwe