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Bug 494518 - app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs should install sys-libs/ncurses with USE=tinfo
Summary: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs should install sys-libs/ncurses with US...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Multilib team
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Depends on: 544876
Blocks: tinfo
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Reported: 2013-12-17 09:40 UTC by Patrick McMunn
Modified: 2015-03-30 16:38 UTC (History)
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Description Patrick McMunn 2013-12-17 09:40:03 UTC 
Some binary packages require libtinfo.so.5 which is not provided by app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs. It would be helpful if ncurses was compiled with the tinfo USE flag enabled so that this library would be provided for these packages. At this time the only workaround is to create a symlink pointing to libncurses.so.5.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-12-17 12:54:21 UTC 
Lots of other packages fail when sys-libs/ncurses is built with USE=tinfo, since they expect certain symbols to be exposed by libncurses and not libtinfo, so we have a long way to go before this can be safely done. The tracker bug in question is probably incomplete as of now and even the remaining bugs will take some time to fix.