Bug 350126

Summary:	sys-apps/coreutils no longer needs sys-libs/ncurses
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) <jcallen>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	darkside
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-12-30 07:10:50 UTC

As there is absolutely no mention of curses or ncurses at all in the source of any of the versions of sys-apps/coreutils currently in the tree, I think the dep can safely be removed as obsolete.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-12-30 17:19:04 UTC

no idea when its usage (via termcap) fell out, but it seems to have left long ago ... so punt it i shall

http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.7.ebuild?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.8.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2