Bugzilla Bug 212524

The default installation of the tetex's dvips seems to ignore the
user config file .dvipsrc:

less ~/.dvipsrc
O 0.0cm,0.0cm
dvips -o t1.ps testpage.dvi

less ~/.dvipsrc
O 0.0cm,1.0cm
dvips -o t2.ps testpage.dvi
diff t1.ps t2.ps
11c11
< %DVIPSCommandLine: dvips -o t1.ps testpage.dvi
---
> %DVIPSCommandLine: dvips -o t2.ps testpage.dvi




Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Output files should reflect the changed configuration file.

It is possible to work around this problem by setting the offset option
globally in the config.ps file, which is used.

Reopen with ebuild name, version and emerge --info; thanks.

(In reply to comment #1)

# equery belongs /usr/bin/dvips
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dvips in *... ]
app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r6 (/usr/bin/dvips)

----------------

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.23-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="candy ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms
strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa arts berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus
dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam firefox foomaticdb
fortran gcj gdbm gif gimprint gpm gstreamer hal iconv imagemagic isdnlog jpeg
kde kerberos mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg
opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4
quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tetex
tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv zlib"
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1
emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m
maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en"
USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

well... texlive's one seems to not ignore it. Is tetex's dvips supposed to
support this ?

Anyway, I really recommend you migrate to texlive which, unlike tetex, is not
outdated.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml

The dvips in any distribution is supposed to support this; at least that's
what the man and info pages for dvips indicate.  Also, it did work in
tetex at some point.  Unfortunately, I don't know when it stopped working,
it could be a while back, I use pdflatex these days for most things.

I'll happily follow the recommendation to migrate to texlive, but only after
it becomes officially unmasked.

Thanks.

removed from the tree, wontfix