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