Re: packages still requiring ncurses

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:14PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote:
> The built-in path is: /etc/termcap, /usr/share/misc/termcap. But none of these
> directories exist in Fedora. ncurses-base has /usr/share/terminfo. My
> knowledge about termcap and terminfo is zero, but it seems that
> /usr/share/terminfo files are binary files, while perl-Term-Cap expects
> a plain text files. Maybe that's the difference between termcap and terminfo.

termcap is an obsolete format of terminal descriptions, which has some
major limitions. Long time ago, Fedora shipped a termcap translated
from the ncurses terminfo database, but everything should be using
terminfo now.

> And thus the hard dependency on ncurses is correct. At the end Term::Cap
> documentation defines the Perl module as "a Perl termcap interface". Not as a
> terminfo interface.

Makes sense to me.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar
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