Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:25:34 -0400 From: Vick Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: is USES=ncurses useless? Message-ID: <CALd%2Bdcc5K%2BuWmyR4RTivN6Ky5p8YqvL-0pUjxh7uTUPhpvM7%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
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I've observed (and filed PR 206471 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206471>) that the USES=ncurses flag in a port does not result in the port actually linking with the ncurses library provided by the port. Does anyone else notice this? Specifically two ports I've encountered that have this issue are tmux and tty-clock. They both specify the ncurses from ports, yet link to base system ncurses library. They register dependencies against the ncurses port, too, which seems to be the only accomplishment of this setting. Full gory details are in the PR linked above. I'd appreciate any comments.
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