removing termcap

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Tue Nov 28 00:00:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:42:46AM -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> 
> On Mon, November 27, 2006 11:37 am, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> I'm assuming that terminfo entries are architecture independent binary
> >> files.  If so /lib/terminfo (on 32bit and 64bit platforms) would work.
> >> It would be a bit odd to find part of the terminfo database
> >> in /lib/terminfo and some in /usr/share/terminfo, though.
> >
> > 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.

 +10

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>




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