From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 18 10:24:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0741C14D3B for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA11079; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:14:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA04290; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:49:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199909181549.RAA04290@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: PAPERSIZE in /etc/make.conf? In-Reply-To: <7rvu0p$1lfr$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> from Christian Weisgerber at "Sep 18, 1999 1:45:29 pm" To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:49:57 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Christian Weisgerber wrote ... Sounds like a good idea, But I'd say it would be even better if it where part of /etc/profile (or something similar) so that it can be picked up from a reliable place at runtime. This would obfuscate the need for different compiled products. Wilko > Should we have a PAPERSIZE variable (A4 vs. letter) in /etc/make.conf? > > - groff has the paper size set as compile time option. > > - Various ports that now exist in two versions or require the > user to define the paper size at build time could automatically > pull the value in. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message