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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:32:50 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Ron House wrote:

> Following this, I installed the ncurses package and everything worked. I
> have a feeling that only a tiny part of that big ncurses pack is
> actually used to make exes function.


Well, actually the terminfo database is about 1M unpacked, or about 1/3 
of the total (due to the large number of small files, and large number 
of directories, usage is highly file-system dependent).  On the next 
release of ncurses, I plan to split the libs/exe's and the terminfo 
database into two separate packages.  I haven't decided what to do about 
the -src.tar.bz2 package for the terminfo-database part.

The goal here is to make it easier to update the database without 
forcing everybody to download the whole ncurses package...

Don't hold yer breath tho -- this is a round tuit problem.  (It'll 
happen when I get 'round tuit).

--Chuck






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