[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs dialog

[Peter Bonivart]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the heads up.
>
> I do note that the dependancies changed, though: you have added CSWncurses.
> Prior package depended on nothing but cswcommon.
>
> Is there a compelling reason to chain in ncurses and csw termcap for this?
>
> (and even if there is, you might consider using "alternatives" to
> provide an ncurses, and a native curses version of the package)
>
> From my recollection, the only issue of interest, was color handling.
> For people doing lightweight stuff, a native-only, b&w only version,
> would potentially be valuable.

Yes, it's about color support, it works nicely with ncurses but not
with curses even when setting environment variables. Ncurses is a
common package anyway but even if not already installed it and
terminfo is only 1.5 MB total.

By the way, this also fixes bug #3908.

/peter