ISO 216 vs U.S. paper

[Matej Cepl]

On 2008-02-18, 00:43 GMT, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> In Debian, there's even more users, for example they patch 
> poppler to use libpaper. So it might be worth looking at their 
> patches if we want to make libpaper more widely used.

That’s exactly my question -- do we? Is there something wrong 
with just following LC_PAPER? Why do I have to have 
/etc/paper.conf?

Matěj