[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#274673: libgpmg1: libgpm should not depend upon libncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Peter Samuelson wrote:

>
> > > Earlier, you mentioned getting misdirected bug reports because
> > > people saw libncurses in 'ldd' for apps that only use -lgpm.  Is
> > > this enough of an annoyance, do you think, for me to go ahead and
> > > do the weak symbol thing which stops libgpm from (explicitly)
> > > linking to libncurses?
>
> [Thomas Dickey]
> > Not if you have to change the packages which supposedly depend upon
> > it.  That sounds like a lot of trouble.
>
> No - unlike your original bug report, this change is ABI-compatible. (:

Then it sounds like a good idea.

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