There's a line in /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages that says to use sys-libs/slang always. I combed through the dependencies, and there doesn't seem to be anything there... is there a good reason for this?
we'll visit this issue after 1.4 is released.
to help this along ... i emerge -i slang on all my boxes and have yet to find a package fail as a result ...
That's because nothing depends on it, except optionally. And since nothing depends on it, it shouldn't be a default system package, as far as I can tell... ncurses does the same thing; maybe it would do better as a virtual/ansi package.
I dislike slang, finding that ncurses works better for every package I've tried, so I'll reassign this to myself and chase it.
slang was yanked from default-x86-1.4 after testing as part of the recent profile-slimming work.
