Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

[John covici]

on Tuesday 07/07/2009 Alan E. Davis(lngndvs@×××××.com) wrote
 > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
 > >
 > > It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software
 > > installed in the chroot.
 > >
 > > However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in
 > > which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup to provide you
 > > with a binary package of ncurses, which you can unpack into your root
 > > directory.
 > >
 > 
 > This is exactly what happened.  I used the systemrescuecd, chrooted,
 > and, lo and behold, the same error message was coming up.  What I
 > might be able to do is symlink to libncursesw ?  Don't know whether
 > it's even on the system.
 > 
 > On the other hand, with a binary ncurses, I could see that might work.
 >  Is there a binary repo?  (Back to sabayon?).  I suppose I need to
 > know the exact version.  Does it matter which use flags it was
 > compiled with?

I wonder if you say  -C and -P would it still use ncurses since you
are turning off color and progress indications?

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