On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:06:20 -0400 Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Spider wrote:
| > well, its sorta orphaned due to being a pain to maintain
| > ( terminfo /curses  dependencies)  there are still ebuilds, you can
| > look in the viewcvs to recover the old ones I believe.
| 
| all versions of vi rely on terminfo/termcap or curses.
| 
| Perhaps you meant to say something different.

What he meant was that "traditional ex/vi" is broken when built against
ncurses rather than termcap, and that we're trying to remove termcap
from the tree on the grounds that it's h0rked.

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