Splitting the ncurses RPM

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Thu Jun 7 09:54:06 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 15:08 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:05PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:13 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > > In /lib/terminfo should be only a minimal set that might be required
> > > when doing system administration with /usr unmounted. Wondering how
> > > xterm got there.
> > 
> > yes, sometimes you bring up a system  to single user, mount /usr, and
> > run xinit to get yourself some windowing while you mess with the
> > machine.  Having xterm there makes perfect sense.
> 
> If /usr is mounted, xterm entry can be in /usr/share/terminfo. Or
> can Xserver work without /usr/share?
> 

My presumption is /usr is mounted; so picking things up from /usr/share
is fine.  X has always been /usr, somewhere.
                      - Jim

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Jim Gettys
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