On Thursday 14 February 2008, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:38:23PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > right now we force -lncurses in the build system. should we be checking
> > for the wide versions of curses and using that when available ?
>
> Yes, it makes sense for things from misc-utils/.
>
> But... I don't think it makes sense to link /sbin/cfdisk with
> /usr/lib/libncursesw. The stuff in /{bin,sbin} should be independent
> on /usr.
Gentoo and Debian place the wide version in /lib ...
> Note that move libncursesw to /lib doesn't make sense because all
> locale data are usually in /usr/share. Maybe we can move cfdisk to
> /usr/sbin (because it's user-friend and more high-level util, ...).
well the interface is currently broken when using a UTF8 locale that has a
translation. for example, we now have russian translations, but they're
broken when the locale defaults to russian unicode (ru_RU.UTF8).
-mike
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