Termcap issue Fedora 11

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You'll never BELIEVE what Brian K. White said here...:
> >> fp/termcap it was getting from /etc/termcap which no longer exists on 11.
> >
> > It's quite possible that it's simply not installed by default.  There
> >   
> 
> Indeed.
> It's not installed by default on opensuse either for the last several
> versions.

I have two OpenSuSE 11.1 systems that beg to differ.  In fact, upon
looking, they don't date -not- install it, as it's part of terminfo-base.
I can't imagine them not installing termcap -or- terminfo, ya know? :)

Now -libtermcap- is a different story, and hasn't been installed by default
since at least SuSE Professional 9, possibly earlier (that's when I first
migrated, and it wasn't installed by default even then).

But the master termcap file?  Yeah, it's in by default as late as SLES
10 and OpenSuSE 11.1.  I won't be recommending anyone continue on with
Novell's commercial product if I can help it--they've proven useless and
incompetent too many times now.  So I can't comment on SLES 11 until I've
seen it, which would involve someone disregarding my advice, or me being
taken up by someone with a pre-installed version at some point.  But much
as I'd love to give Novell a good thrashing, I can't imagine even they're
stupid enough to omit the master termcap file by default.  

> You need to select the termcap package manually is all. No biggie.
> I'm sure that's all it is with Fedora.

I'd be prepared to be the same about libtermcap.  But /etc/termcap itself
being missing is a bit more of a mystery, and strikes me as very odd.

mark->
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