Re: [PATCH 12/40] man/tput.1: Revise (1/10) (NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION introduction).

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-01-15T12:25:27-0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 05:42:48PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > It obviously is relevant for distribution packagers like Werner and
> > me, who need to remove or rename the init.1 symlink.
> 
> agreed - it needs fixing (I didn't notice it - between ongoing work on
> terminfo.src, and reviewing Branden's changes for gotchas, I missed
> it).

I apologize the trouble; I used "man -aw" to measure the expected
impact, and as I just noticed in my reply to Sven, didn't realize that
that wasn't the full story.  Had I noticed it, I probably still would
have pitched the change, but advised of the potential impact as well.

> (I'll probably just suppress it in the install scripts - I doubt that
> anyone needs it as a configure option - seriously).

Aww, c'mon, ncurses is really starved for those.  ;-)

Regards,
Branden

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