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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:23:58 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Another Ncurses issue [WAS: Re: Problems with talk utility from inetutils]
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In-Reply-To: <3A687C1E.D28897C7@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:40:46PM -0500

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:40:46PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:12:05AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It doesn't compile with termcap. It depends on curses. If curses
>> >> (or ncurses) isn't available on a system, talk and talkd are not
>> >> build. IMHO, the ncurses package should be moved from contrib to
>> >> latest anyway.
>> >>
>> >
>> >I agree.  Also, a /etc/postinstall script to clean up /usr/include would
>> >be nice.  Forgive me if you've already thought of this.
>> 
>> setup.exe should already cleanup obsolete files like this automatically.
>> 
>
>Really! That's cool, I didn't know this.

I just learned about this recently myself, after sending a private
suggestion to DJ.  It was one of those "D'oh" experiences...

cgf

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