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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:17:55
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42z_vzy2u9iy7N-Y9k_VFM0kNYgL=ERp26-7rWAbjJ4=w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag by konsolebox
1 On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:05 PM, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:13 AM, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> Please consider promoting the use of tinfo flag in packages that
5 >>> depend on sys-libs/ncurses so that they would synchronize properly
6 >>> with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo].
7 >>
8 >> I would rather see the tinfo USE flag removed from ncurses.
9 >
10 > There are people who use packages that rely on sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo].
11
12 So we should either:
13
14 1. Always enable tinfo.
15 2. Always disable tinfo, but install a binary compatibility symlink:
16
17 /lib/libtinfo.so.6 -> libncurses.so.6

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Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com>