<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Long <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.long@mac.com" target="_blank">andrew.long@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1c3" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">'m in the process of installing ncurses.5 (on the basis that readline.6 wants it so I'll give it to it) and it's now rebuilding a whole host of ports.<br>
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Can I assume that is a poor choice? I'm letting it rip at the moment (nothing critical going on) and can afford to do a bit of experimenting.</div></blockquote></div><br>It's a great choice if you intend to never update your ports ever again. We're still fixing stuff broken by ncurses 5 -> ncurses 6, and as time goes by more ports will require ncurses 6 directly.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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