On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:25:57AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Sami Kerola wrote:
> > On 15 July 2017 at 23:45, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > The 'big' change in this pull request is to drop reset(1) from util-linux.
> > > > I don't think there is any point of keep this script hanging around.
> > >
> > > Why do you think that. I find it useful when some application corrupts the
> > > screen. I realize that reset is a symlink to tset, but I find reset easier
> > > to remember/use.
> >
> > The ncurses package contains both binaries tput(1) and reset(1). So this
> > script will not work without ncurses, and the very same package has the
> > binary that obsoletes the script.
>
> Thanks. I agree that duplicate functions should be removed.
And note that it's already deprecated and disabled by default. You
need --enable-reset now. I guess distros use reset(1) from ncurses for
really long time.
Karel
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