[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes:



> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558800

No big deal now that we can see all the recent changes to ncurses.

Me; I'm just going to wait until Monday, to sync and update.


> The problem was that EAPI5 (which is only a year old or so) interacts
> with slot moves (which have been around for a long time) in a way that
> wasn't anticipated.  Devs comfortable with slot moves didn't recognize
> that this would be a high-impact change, and so there wasn't much
> testing, and it directly hit stable.  I think we'll be talking more
> about that from a lessons-learned perspective.

I appreciate the explanation.
I've already move on to other projects this weekend.

I just hope there his a gentoo wiki page on GIT that minimizes the what
we need to read and some clear examples on how to do things and why.
I know it's evolving.

> Of course, ncurses being such an important package just made this a huge mess.

Yep it first hit me a few days ago with libcaca and the LXQT install.
All is fine now for me. PS. I use man pages as references. They rarely
"connect the dots" like your previously referred to presentation. That
would be keen to link off of a gentoo wiki page; or get one of the more
knowledgable gentoo devs to provide something handy and simple. Lord knows,
we gonna be revisiting GIT issues for a while.....

thx,
James