removing termcap

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:12:20PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dimi Paun (dimi at lattica.com) said: 
> > > I'd prefer /etc, just to make it more standard (and it would require
> > > less configuration hackery.)
> > 
> > I'm not sure it's such a good idea to stick binary databases in /etc.
> > They are not modifiable by the user anyway, /lib/terminfo seems more
> > appropriate.
> 
> Well, they're modifiable with tic. I submit that they're at least
> as modifiable as selinux policies, sendmail databases, etc.

We can also use more paths in ncurses, /etc/terminfo will be for local
terminfo database, ncurses will search here first, and
/usr/share/terminfo:/lib/terminfo will contain the packaged database.

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Miroslav Lichvar