On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 23:13 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The problem with this is that non-X boxes will be missing the terminfo > descriptions.
Right. > The problem with this is that some terminals gain new capabilities > fairly regularly. One example is rxvt-unicode, which is still putting > out regular releases. I see... > A third possibility is to split out the terminfo db from ncurses. This > will let us do frequent updates if necessary. It may also help the > embedded people -- we could add a USE=minimal which only installs > 'common' definitions and leaves out support for obscure 1950s line > printers. There may be a gaping hole in this idea. I haven't thought it > through much... Ripping out /etc/terminfo/ and /usr/share/terminfo from ncurses and installing it as, say, ncurses-terminfo would make sense. I don't see any obvious problems with this approach... > That thing we don't have yet. Aha. ./Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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