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Re: perlconfig in postinst: opinion please...



Bruce Perens writes (reformatted):
> [...]
> When we go to ELF, we'll be replacing curses with ncurses. No more
> /etc/termcap from then on. To solve the space problem we will split
> ncurses-* into yet a third package containing configuration entries
> for the more rare terminals, while the more common ones would remain
> in ncurses-runtime. It will help to have ncurses in a shared
> library, as well. We probably don't have to do anything about this
> until the ELF conversion.

Three packages ?  Perhaps we should put the development tools and the
obscure terminals in the same package, to reduce confusion.

Ian.


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