[tex-live] Incompatible geometry.sty changes

[Norbert Preining]

> I used tlmgr for this. It tells me:
> 
> 	Current context paper size (from /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf- 
> config/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex): a4
> 	Current dvipdfm paper size (from /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf- 
> config/dvipdfm/config/config): a4
> 	Current dvipdfmx paper size (from /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf- 
> config/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg): a4
> 	Current dvips paper size (from /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/ 
> dvips/config/config.ps): a4
> 	Current pdftex paper size (from /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/ 
> tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex): a4
> 	Current xdvi paper size (from /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/ 
> xdvi/XDvi): a4
> 
> which for geometry does not seem to be true.

Right, or do you see
	LaTeX
or
	geometry.sty
in the above list???

All the above is about physical paper size settings in driver programs if 
no default paper size is given.

LaTeX has letter as default. Period.

There are 100eds of similar bugs in Debian and I always retitle them to 
either
	Please package MS Word
or to
	Please make LaTeX change pagebreaks on system change

No thanks.

That is documented in many LaTeX intros.

What we CAN do is give a warning in our docs - but who reads them? - about 
that.

Best

Norbert
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