On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:30:35AM -0400, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:30:08AM +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >   I'm not sure exactly what causes this, but it goes away if I limit
> > aptitude to only allocating 100 colors. (that's foreground and
> > background, for a total of 10,000 color pairs used).
> > 
> >   It appears that xterm advertises 32767 available colors, which
> > obviously should be enough.  However, since I doubt anyone really uses
> > higher colors with aptitude, I'll limit it to only using the basic
> > 8-color space for now as a workaround.
> 
> It would work with ncurses using the extended-colors feature (which would
> make ncurses binary-incompatible).

  Hm, what are extended colors?  Google mainly turns up logs of
./configure runs.

  Daniel


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