> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:49:16AM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>> it looks like you are dropping files into the operating system area of
>> /usr and that really should be a no go.
>
> Which Steve explicitly pointed out in his mail.
>
>> Everything related to SFWanything should stay in /opt/sfw or /usr/sfw
>> but not straight into /usr .
>
> Except in this case.
I disagree.
> The Solaris curses library doesn't pull terminfo entries from anywhere
> except /usr/share/lib/terminfo, so putting them
So there is your problem. The Solaris curses libs are written such that
it is not possible to drag in terminfo data from other locations like
/opt/foo.
> elsewhere wouldn't be particularly useful. The *right* answer to this is
> to integrate them into the WOS, but there seem to be some sort of licensing
> issues that make it non-trivial in some way.
Well, the "WOS" seems to be some term outside the scope of the OpenSolaris
project. see :
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/s?refs=WOS
dc
