Re: ncurses wasn't installed -> no tput/clear/reset commands

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Apparently nothing in the default install set requires ncurses, so 
> that leaves the system missing the commands "tput", "clear" and 
> "reset", the first of which at least is used by the default login 
> scripts:
>
> #grep -r tput /etc/profile*
> /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh:  if ( "`tput colors`" == "256" ) then
> /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh:      [ "x`tput colors 2>/dev/null`" = 
> "x256" ] && \
>
> I get an error when I open a new shell with tcsh:
>
> tput: Command not found.
>
> I guess the provider of /etc/profile.d/colorls.* (coreutils) should 
> Requires: ncurses?  Or should this be put into comps?
>
> "clear" and "reset" are such a basic commands I'd expect them to 
> always be there.  My .logout has had "clear" in it for more than 10 
> years...
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469277

bash should require it, the file below is part of the bash package.

11:13 [summer numbat ~]$ rpm -qf /etc/skel/.bash_logout
bash-3.1-16.1
11:16 [summer numbat ~]$

Possibly, mingetty too, it clears the screen.

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John

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