Roland Illig wrote:
Is curses support really *necessary* for any of the bootstrap tools?
(as far as I remember:)Currently, it is "necessary" for the FTP client program (tnftp), which requires it for user interaction. I think a good solution would be to disable that part of tnftp, since it is not essential to its main function, which is downloading things.
tnftp has a check for curses support that exits with a warning if it can't find anything. pkg_install separately also requires curses, or at least, as of around two years ago, pkg_install compiles would fail on hosts that didn't have curses headers available (hence my PR). As I no longer use Linux for anything, I couldn't say if it's still truly an issue (I haven't looked through the pkg_install code). Regards, Dave