From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Mar 28 12:00:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29248 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29218 Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:00:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:00:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199603282000.MAA29218@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: ports/1104: Paper sizes in (printing) ports Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR ports/1104; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/1104: Paper sizes in (printing) ports Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:33:15 +0100 (MET) As David E. O'Brien wrote: > So I would like to request that the psutils port be renamed to > psutils-a4, and a2ps be renamed a2ps-a4. Naturally, i would tend to oppose against this proposal (for the very same and thus equally valid arguments as you -- only seen from the other side of the pond, from the 20th century with a ``metric'' world :-). Perhaps we should tweak our ports to use a PAPERSIZE env variable to base their decisions upon? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)