Why is termcap still around?

Christian Krause kizkizzbangbang at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 25 11:37:56 CET 2010


Hello!

I recently recognized the module "termcap" looking at the BUILD file
of "ncurses". There is "--disable-termcap" passed to the configure
script. The module "termcap" has neither dependencies nor does any
module depend on it (looking at the empty output of "lvu leert
termcap"). So actually no one needs termcap and the capabilities of
termcap could be provided with ncurses, which is always installed
since lunar depends on it.

So my question is, why is termcap still in moonbase?
Can it be removed?

Cheers
wookietreiber


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