On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote: > ncurses-base-1.9.8a-1.deb should have a debian.preinst to kill > the link etc/terminfo -> ../usr/lib/terminfo provided by base-0.93.6. > Or it is intended that these fall into /usr/lib/terminfo?
No, it isn't. They are supposed to be totally disconnected. Thanks for pointing this out --- in the course of testing I had of course zapped my old ncurses a while ago. -2 should be out soon. > And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database > w/o installing and purging? Well, you could first 'dpkg --purge ncurses-runtime'. I don't know offhand what all is dependent upon ncurses-runtime at this point. I realized that both ncurses-base and ncurses-term should conflict with ncurses-runtime, and that ncursesX.X-dev should conflict with ncurses-developer. This _might_ make for some hairy dependency issues, but I don't think so --- nothing terribly big depends on either of those right now. Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."
