[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs dialog

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> * Philip Brown <phil at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > We don't know - but simply assume - that people actually care whether
> > > dialog comes with additional dependencies. OTOH, what we do know for
> > > sure is that support for different terminals is definitly more robust
> > > and less likely to break when apps are linked to our CSWncurses (because
> > > this implies TERMINFO=/opt/csw/share/terminfo).
> > >
> > > So why the heck do we go in circles around this topic every time it pops
> > > up?
> > 
> > Well, we do know for a fact that some of our "customers" do care about
> > size of packages, and needless downloads.
> > The question then becomes whether or not it is "needless".
> > 
> > It seems clear that for those customers that dont care about color, it
> > is needless.
> > What other examples of "breakage" do you know of?
> 
> SSH from a Mac (default TERM=xterm-color) to a Solaris box and start a
> curses application. curses which doesn't know about xterm-color will
> complain and present you with a severly crippled terminal experience.

s/Solaris box/Solaris 9 box/

Sebastian