On Thursday 14 February 2008, Karel Zak wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:38:23PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > right now we force -lncurses in the build system. should we be checking > > for the wide versions of curses and using that when available ? > > Yes, it makes sense for things from misc-utils/. > > But... I don't think it makes sense to link /sbin/cfdisk with > /usr/lib/libncursesw. The stuff in /{bin,sbin} should be independent > on /usr.
Gentoo and Debian place the wide version in /lib ... > Note that move libncursesw to /lib doesn't make sense because all > locale data are usually in /usr/share. Maybe we can move cfdisk to > /usr/sbin (because it's user-friend and more high-level util, ...). well the interface is currently broken when using a UTF8 locale that has a translation. for example, we now have russian translations, but they're broken when the locale defaults to russian unicode (ru_RU.UTF8). -mike
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