removing termcap

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 27 16:37:51 UTC 2006


Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:49 +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> 
> > - Move the most important entries in the terminfo database to
> >   /etc/terminfo or /lib{,64}/terminfo. Binary files don't fit /etc well,
> >   but the second option isn't much better as it will duplicate the
> >   entries on multiarch.
> 
> I'm assuming that terminfo entries are architecture independent binary
> files.  If so /lib/terminfo (on 32bit and 64bit platforms) would work.
> It would be a bit odd to find part of the terminfo database
> in /lib/terminfo and some in /usr/share/terminfo, though.

I'd prefer /etc, just to make it more standard (and it would require
less configuration hackery.)

Bill




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