ok -- I've become annoyed by the start time of some apps which I do run in terminal (e.g. screen).
I've tried to run them on another ARM based beast -- my router -- and it starts immediately... ok -- a bit of stracing to figure out that some considerable time is spent processing ... /etc/termcap opkg remove termcap and now it takes a second instead of 10 to start screen ;-) it might be that the base image doesn't have it installed but I've been running FDOM + multitude of upgrades, so may be installation of termcap some how went under the hood? So decided to share ;-) Do we ever need /etc/termcap? may be so for some elderly software which doesn't make use of curses... actually description of termcap-compat package in Debian (Debian of FR doesn't install it obviousely) The termcap-compat package provides the libtermcap.so.2 and /etc/termcap files which are required to run non-Debian, binary-only termcap-based programs. Since libc6-based programs are hopefully "modern" enough to be linked with ncurses (or slang), this package only provides a libc5-based libtermcap library. So I doubt that we would need it, and there are no other packages which depend on it -- so it should be safe to remove it -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community