[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] iftop: Update to latest version, and drop patch

Bert Vermeulen bert at biot.com
Sat May 7 04:03:49 PDT 2016


On 05/07/2016 12:46 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2016-05-07 12:40, Bert Vermeulen wrote:
>> On 05/07/2016 12:01 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>> We should probably just move everything to libncursesw and drop
>>> libncurses entirely.
>>
>> Actually I'd gotten this wrong: libncursesw is an extra build option to
>> libncurses, so you only get it if you explicitly want it. In that case
>> though, you specifically DO want your applications to use ncursesw instead
>> of regular ncurses.
> It's a build variant, meaning both can be built and staged at the same time.
>
>> So regardless of whether you keep libncurses around or not, I think patches
>> preferring one or the other should be dropped, right?
> What the package ends up using absolutely needs to match the
> dependencies that the package specifies (otherwise you get a build
> error). Allowing the package source build system to simply pick one will
> result in very quirky behavior.

Ok, so will you drop regular libncurses? Or do you need me to submit a patch 
to do it?


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Bert Vermeulen
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