rawhide report: 20061201 changes

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Dnia 01-12-2006, pią o godzinie 05:54 -0500, buildsys at redhat.com
> napisał(a):
> > ncurses-5.5-26.20060715.fc7
> > ---------------------------
> > * Thu Nov 30 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com>
> > 5.5-26.20060715
> > - move also hardlinked entries (#217750)
> > - search /etc/terminfo for local terminfo entries
> 
> On thread about switching from libtermcap to ncurses was about
> libncurses size vis libtermcap. Why not enable --with-termlib in
> ncurses. After this only libtermlib[w] can sit in /{_lib} and all other
> shared libraries can be installed in %{_libdir} because all applications
> which now uses termcap API can be linked with only libtermlib.

The termlib is the part of ncurses that has big .data section, so
it wouldn't help much.

> Second: now ncurses package contains shared libncurses and libncursesw.
> Why not all link all against libncursesw ? It will allow drop libncurses
> (or move to compat-ncurses). It will allow make main package ~two time
> smaller.

Some packages don't need the wide-character ncurses, in fact there are
only 20 packages in FC+FE that depend on the library. But number of
packages requiring libncurses is about 200.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar