Re: Link cfdisk with libncurses instead of slang?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:

> > AFIAK the boot floppies are completly slang based with no ncurses at
> > all. If so, making a program on them depend on ncurses would completly
> > screw us.
>
> Indeed.  Furthermore, when running mklibs.sh on slang, we get a very nice small
> library.  For ncurses, it doesn't reduce well at all, so we end up with quite a
> size problem on the boot floppies when using ncurses.

Thanks for your answers. I understand why it's necessary for you that
cfdisk is compiled using slang and I won't change this.

> Now when we switch to using the debian-installer, you can make just
> the udeb depend on slang and the regular package can use ncurses...

I don't want to have two different cfdisk programs.

>  -Erik

cu
Adrian

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