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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:35:42 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 2a50a9de8340 - main - terminfo: add terminfo database
Message-ID:  <20210226193542.GA89099@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <d0c4f575-9aba-4b04-a0f4-17e1c0fbedfb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 07:23:48PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> ...
> Let me rephrase it. I won't patch ncurses terminfo as that would make
> the maintenance a huge pain.

How disabling one single mis-feature makes it huge pain to maintain?
How big is the patch?  We had been doing these things for contributed
software since our dawn times, so our users won't have to circumvent
upstream's stupidity.  When did this change?

> The solution is to document how to workaround for the people who dislike
> the new behaviour.

This is just wrong on so many different levels; I honestly don't understand
what the fuck is going on here. :-(

./danfe



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