Bug#223283: tetex-base: pdftex does not use /etc/papersize

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> [2003-12-08 09:46]:
> On the other hand, pdftex cannot be changed to look into
> /etc/papersize itself, because it usually won't find it. I doubt
> wether other Linux distributions use such a file, not to speak about
> other Unices, Windows or Mac OS.

You can have a patch which is specific to Debian's tetex package which
does exactly this.  There are a fair number of packages which have
patches to change the behaviour in this regard (e.g. changing a call
to "more" or "less" to "pager", which is a Debian specific thing).
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com