Re: [RFC] Split Terminfo database

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 01:07:11PM +0530, Marc Boocha wrote:
> Dear Thomas Dickery,
> 
> I notice there is alot of terminfo enties in the current terminainfo.src
> that are for old terminal that are not common in use today. I suggest that
> these of teminfo packages could be split into a second file which users
> could choose not install. This also make the file more readable and more
> hackable.

That's an FAQ:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#big_terminfo

as well as an issue for packagers.  I don't recall any packager
getting my advice on things like this:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/ncurses-base
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ncurses-base

I could develop a nicer script than the one in the FAQ (e.g., starting
with a set of names, construct a source which has those names and the
building-blocks cited with "use=" clauses), but none of the packagers
would use it.
 
> On side note, how do I send patches, I am trying fix few terminfo entries.

diff's sent to the mailing list.

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