From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 3 6:20:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FE937B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:20:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from MX1.estpak.ee (mta2.mail.neti.ee [194.126.101.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3395C43E4A for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:20:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from kevad.internal (80-235-34-97-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.97]) by MX1.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBA688881; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:19:33 +0200 (EET) Received: from kevad.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kevad.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13EKh94003374; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:20:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo@kevad.internal) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by kevad.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h13EKckj003373; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:20:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:20:37 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: AlanE Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: No terminfo in system ncurses Message-ID: <20030203142037.GA3251@kevad.internal> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <20030203123942.GA54636@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203123942.GA54636@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:39:51AM -0500, AlanE wrote: > Why is there no full terminfo db in the system ncurses? You have to install > the port in order to get it. Seems wrong to me. It's stripped out for historical reasons I guess. BSD systems have used to use termcap traditionally, but you probably know it already. So the question is why the history forces us to termcap, so I have to install /usr/share/misc/terminfo by hand.. Good ground for new (and at the same time old) holy war, isn't it :-/ -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message