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Arch Linux @lemmy.ml squid_slime @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Anyone else uninstall ncurses and realise how important of a package it is...

Well I did, wanted the git version so uninstalled ncurses to then blissfully install ncurses-git and low and behold my system shat.

Pacstraps my hero

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- “libcaca” will always make me chuckle, cause I have the sense of humor of a 7 year old and speak French, where “caca” means “poop”.
  
  Same in Turkish; I think it may be Greek in origin. I used to think that it's baby-talk, like many other primordial words like 'mamma', 'baba', etc; but it doesn't seem to be universal like those.
- For what does bash use ncurses‽
  
  I think it's a dependency of readline.
- -Rd --nodeps
I like ncurses. Never tried to uninstall it, wish more programs used it.
I've done this 🤣 only once in 20 years I learned my lesson

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