On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:00:26 +0200 Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > * Install, either with the terminal (as is done by rxvt-unicode | > currently), or as part of ncurses, proper terminfo definitions for | > these terminals. | | One could argue for both solutions here: it would make sense to | install it along with the offending terminal, since this is where we | change the value of the $TERM variable.
The problem with this is that non-X boxes will be missing the terminfo descriptions. | Perhaps we should just once-and-for-all submit a patch to ncurses | which includes these new terminfo definitions? We will then patch our | foo-terminal ebuilds to set a proper value of $TERM. Then when | upstream (hopefully) decides to change their $TERM value to something | sane, ncurses will already have the support, and we can remove the | local patch along with the version bump of foo-terminal. The problem with this is that some terminals gain new capabilities fairly regularly. One example is rxvt-unicode, which is still putting out regular releases. A third possibility is to split out the terminfo db from ncurses. This will let us do frequent updates if necessary. It may also help the embedded people -- we could add a USE=minimal which only installs 'common' definitions and leaves out support for obscure 1950s line printers. There may be a gaping hole in this idea. I haven't thought it through much... | > * Include TERM stuff in policy so that the problem doesn't crop up | > again a few months later. | | I'm not sure what you mean by "policy"? That thing we don't have yet. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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