On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:05 PM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:13 AM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Please consider promoting the use of tinfo flag in packages that >>>> depend on sys-libs/ncurses so that they would synchronize properly >>>> with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]. >>> >>> I would rather see the tinfo USE flag removed from ncurses. >> >> There are people who use packages that rely on sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]. > > So we should either: > > 1. Always enable tinfo. > 2. Always disable tinfo, but install a binary compatibility symlink: > > /lib/libtinfo.so.6 -> libncurses.so.6
If that's certain not to cause issues now or in the future, and is workable in all depending packages, then I'm ok with it. -- konsolebox
