When ncurses is compiled with gpm suppoort, there is a circular dependency between gpm and ncurses.

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When ncurses is compiled with gpm suppoort, there is a circular dependency between gpm and ncurses. #19

Closed crocket closed 7 years ago

crocket commented 7 years ago

On a gentoo system where almost everything is compiled, circular dependency requires manual intervention of administrator.

I just turned off gpm in ncurses so that I won't have to manually turn gpm off and on in ncurses.

Conceptually, gpm shouldn't need to know about ncurses. Is there a way to make gpm unaware of ncurses?

telmich commented 7 years ago

Conceptually, GPM uses ncurses, unfortunately. It's a very old cyclic dependency and it will stay there as long as GPM has support for xterm via ncurses.