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levi

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2018-06-16

Posts: 1,197

Conflict between ncurses and alacritty-terminfo

I just tried to install alacritty-terminfo and it conflicted with ncurses:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
alacritty-terminfo: /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty exists in filesystem (owned by ncurses)
alacritty-terminfo: /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty-direct exists in filesystem (owned by ncurses)

Since these are the only target files this package contains, do we even need it at all?

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abaumann

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From: Zurich

Registered: 2019-11-14

Posts: 985

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Re: Conflict between ncurses and alacritty-terminfo

Confirmed.

alacritty-terminfo is no longer in upstream, terminfo in ncurses is also kinda weird (I
would have expected a terminfo/termcap packages, but well, maybe it has been
merged in the past).

We still have alacritty-terminfo in the repos, so it is a package from the past (TM). :-)