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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:50:48 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Subject: Re: setup-x86_64: postinstall errors: Package bash 1, Package a2ps 2 and xinit 134
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On 2013-07-23 03:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 23 03:27, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On 2013-07-23 02:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jul 22 23:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>>> echo letter > /etc/papersize
>>>
>>> I'd prefer `echo a4 > /etc/papersize' ;)
>>
>> I suppose you would. :-)  Any idea how to provide a sane default
>> that most people on both sides of the pond would be happy with?
>
> We don't support LC_PAPER so we also don't have this information in
> some DB.

So which Thursday isn't booked yet? :-)

> Just use letter and let us europeans with their weird
> paper formats handle this manually.

I suppose "weird" is a matter of perspective, but I'll proceed as you 
suggest.  Unless you think this is worth (ab)using a setup.hint message: 
tag?


Yaakov


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