On Thu, 2026-07-23 at 09:40 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > From: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]> > > Why it is done that way is lost in history; the gentoo reference > doesn't help much, as gentoo nowadays certainly doesn't move the > terminfo files around like that. > > This also drops the xterm -> xterm-color symlink. I don't think that > symlink is appropriate nowadays either, as running > > infocmp -L -d xterm xterm-color > > shows that "xterm" (aka xterm-new, aka xterm-p370) has far more > capabilities than "xterm-color". So instead, just add plain 'xterm' to > the TERMINFO_BASE variable. > > Moreover, as the xterm -> xterm-color symlink only existed under /etc, > people who install the full ncurses-terminfo would have a > /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm which did not match /etc/terminfo/x/xterm, > and which one an application would pick up is not obvious. > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Hi Rasmus, The change looks good, please re-submit a v2 with the incorrect gentoo reference dropped from the commit message. Best regards, -- Paul Barker
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