Problems with talk utility from inetutils

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:02:08PM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> > >Just a question: since ncurses is a "contrib" item, should inetutils use
>> > >it or should inetutils just compile against termcap?
>> >
>> > It should compile with termcap.  That may be tricky if terminfo is
>> > installed, though.
>> 
>> It doesn't compile with termcap. It depends on curses. If curses
>> (or ncurses) isn't available on a system, talk and talkd are not
>> build. IMHO, the ncurses package should be moved from contrib to
>> latest anyway.
>
>Ah.  Well, this makes inetutils the first official, non-contrib package
>to depend on ncurses.  This sounds like a good policy to me: when a
>'latest' package is built to depend on a 'contrib' package, move the
>'contrib' package into 'latest'.
>
>However, I remember massive confusion when zlib was moved from 'latest'
>to 'contrib'.  Do you suppose that will recur in this instance, or was
>that just an artifact of setup.exe's evolution? (e.g. setup was just
>learning how to deal with multiple subdir paths...)

I'm sure that everything will be just fine or, if not, people will figure
everything out for themselves and do the right thing.

cgf
(the medication is finally kicking in)

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