Re: pkg/32176 (teTeX package is set to A4 and is hard to change)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/32176; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/32176 (teTeX package is set to A4 and is hard to change)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:19:49 +0000

 On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 05:05:03PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
  >  > papersize has been superseded by libpaper, which honors the default 
  >  > set with PAPERSIZE, and I've rebuilt the entire mess of tex packages 
  >  > repeatedly without this configuration getting lost, ignored, or 
  >  > abused. As far as I can tell, it all works.
  >  
  >  Should a note to pkgsrc-users be sent to explain this? I use PAPERSIZE. 
  >  Is it replaced?
 
 I have
    PAPERSIZE=Letter
 in mk.conf and tex DTRT without the text/papersize package installed
 at all. I don't know what happens if you don't set PAPERSIZE but do
 use the papersize package. As I noted here a while ago though, it's
 been a long long time since I've had a problem and I use tex quite a
 bit.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost