Danek Duvall wrote:
> Sriram Natarajan wrote:
>
>> From what I understand , ncurses component is licensed under MIT
>> license and is not GPL. However, I see that ncurses library is
>> integrated under /usr/gnu/lib. Should this library be not integrated
>> under /usr/lib ? Is there any significant reason for this doing this
>> way ?
>
> Alan's right about the licenses, but ncurses is also misdelivered. The
> reason to have /usr/gnu is only for conflicting entries in the namespace.
> That is, GNU coreutils can't deliver /usr/bin/ls, since ON already does.
> So it delivers /usr/gnu/bin/ls and (optionally) a non-conflicting name in
> /usr/bin, such as /usr/bin/gls.
Right - I thought ncurses ended up there because the utilities it delivers
(tic, infocmp, tput, etc.) do conflict. It would be nice if the library
could be in /usr/lib while the programs ended up in /usr/gnu, but that takes
a bit more tweaking of the configure options than just --prefix.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
