From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 15 9:30:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389C337B405 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0FHU2G76718; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:30:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201151730.g0FHU2G76718@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/33906; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Alexey V. Neyman" Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:21:39 +0200 On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:17:10PM +0300, Alexey V. Neyman wrote: > On 15 January 2002 19:53, you wrote: > > FreeBSD does not, by default, have or use terminfo databases, hence > > there's no need for tic(1) in the base system, and least not for the > > general community. Those who need it for whatever reasons can > > install ncurses port (after it's unbroken). > > I see it is marked FORBIDDEN, not BROKEN. If I haven't misread the > FORBIDDEN line, the only issue is that it substitutes base ncurses. > Then why not to make the port use base system sources/local freebsd > tweaks instead of substituting it. Or this may be done as a separate > port (something like "sysutils/ncurses-utils"). > I'd be happy with this, like it's done for textproc/gxditview using the base system's contrib/groff sources. I just don't think that tic(1) should be in the base system. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message