[ale] gentoo term question

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Fulton Green <fultongr at greenie.frogspace.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:45 PM
>
>> I just saw a message go by on the kernelnewbies list to
>> the effect of, "nothing uses termcap anymore, you need
>> to install and/or update terminfo instead."

> The terminfo files seem to be a part of ncurses these days.

Oh - well, maybe the USE flag you need to set is 'ncurses'.  :)

>> The problem with that is that vim brings in about 1/2GB
>> of X junk.

> Does it *have* to? I know that vim has the GUI component
> (gvim), and I think there's still a directive in the CLI
> to attempt to change an xterm's window title, but would
> there be a way to emerge vim w/o compiling the
> X-dependent stuff? Just wondering.

I recall this being discussed a few months ago, but can't for the life of me
remember what the answer was - but it seems to me that it was possible to
install vim without X.

Might try searching the maillist archives.

Charles


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