Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: midnight commander -> which screen library

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 03:26:34 Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2009, 02:02 +0200 schrieb Petteri Räty:
> > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Monday 09 February 2009 13:32:24 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > >> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > >>> @mc.o (*1) we're currently discussing which screen library to keep.
> > >>> Either ncurses or slang will be dropped (bundled slang will anyway)
> > >>> Both have their pros and cons, so we haven't decided yet.
> > >>>
> > >>> What do you suggest, which screen library to keep ?
> > >>>
> > >>> BTW: 4.6.2 is soon coming (only 1 bug left) :)
> > >>
> > >>   unicode? ( >=sys-libs/slang-2.1.3 )
> > >>   !unicode? ( sys-libs/ncurses )
> > >>
> > >> If Unicode isn't possible with ncurses, keep slang :P  No Unicode
> > >> support would be... not good.
> > >
> > > that doesnt make any sense.  both ncurses and slang work just fine with
> > > and without unicode.  i dont think he was asking about Gentoo anyways
> > > ... he was asking about upstream mc.
> > >
> > > the proper string under Gentoo would be:
> > > ncurses? (
> > > 	unicode? ( sys-libs/ncurses[unicode] )
> > > 	!unicode? ( sys-libs/ncurses )
> > > )
> > > !ncurses? ( slang? ( >=sys-libs/slang-2.1.3 ) )
> > > -mike
> >
> > ncurses? ( sys-libs/ncurses[unicode?] )
> > !ncurses? ( slang? ( >=sys-libs/slang-2.1.3 ) )
>
> Since you want always one of {slang,ncurses} you'll probably want
> something like this:
>
> slang? ( >=sys-libs/slang-2.1.3 )
> !slang? ( sys-libs/ncurses[unicode?] )
>
> and drop the ncurses USE-flag completely. Or set USE="+ncurses" and do
> this:
> ncurses? ( sys-libs/ncurses[unicode?] )
> !ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/slang-2.1.3 )
>
> ... depends on what you want per default.

pfft, real men dont need terminal libraries ;)
-mike