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Re: 2nd summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)


On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:06:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > >  clear
> >
> > This comes from ncurses doesn't it?  Is it being purposely dropped from the
> > ncurses distribution?  Chuck?
>
> The clear program that ships with ncurses is packaged as clearn.exe, to avoid
> conflicting with the clear package.
>
> The clear.exe from the clear package is tiny:
>
> [[[
> main()
> {
>  write (1, "\033[1;1H\033[2J", 10);
>  return 0;
> }
> ]]]
>
> Since ncurses is in category Base, perhaps we should drop the clear package
> from the distribution, and allow ncurses clear to take the place of this
> package?
> It looks like the standalone clear might have been a temporary workaround,
> before ncurses was ported.

If by dropping you mean "obsolete" -- I agree.  Release a new, empty
"clear", in the "Obsolete" category, and at the same time rename "clearn"
from ncurses to "clear"...  Chuck, what do you think?
	Igor
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