Re: [gentoo-dev] hidden dependences on termcap.

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:48:16 -0400 gabriel russell
<grussell@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
| I did an emerge -p depclean and saw that  libtermcap-compat had no
| dependents. After unmerging it, I noticed that mplayer was
| nonfunctional because of it's broken linkange to libtermcap. When I
| re-emerged mplayer, it worked fine.
| 
| I ran ldd on /bin/* /usr/bin/* and grep'd for termcap, finding that
| wdiff was also linked to termcap. I tested that it actually didn't
| work and then that it did work after I re-emerge it.
| 
| I think that this is a bug of sorts. I think that termcap needs to be
| added as a use flag for those programs, or removed from their
| configure scripts. 

See bug, er... *thinks*... 64212.

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