Storing one thing in one place is an excellent goal. Treating multiple things as tho they were one thing (EG "all printers use the same paper) can be troublesome.
Ideal: keep the option of an /etc/papersize, but allow a user to override /etc/papersize if desired, thru ~/papersize or environment variables. Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > >Shouldn't the "paper size" be an attribute of a print queue, and not an > >attribute of a machine? > > Paper size effect more that just printers. Previewers and tex tools > come to mind, there may be others... > > All I know is right now I've got to tweak quite a few things on a > standard debian 1.1 system so that dvips, xdvi, genscript, and a few > other programs work well and have the same idea of a default paper > size. > > -- > Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept > http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
