From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 19:10:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFFD16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net (firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6E543FD7 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from titan.criticalmagic.com ([68.213.16.23] helo=mindspring.com) by firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1ANke0-0001Yh-00; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:10:40 -0800 Message-ID: <3FC02538.7040903@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:10:48 -0500 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> <20031122.184733.32325352.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031123131536.M3946@gamplex.bde.org> <20031122.195519.127506801.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20031122.195519.127506801.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 1ee258965991efcb0865379cdb43356e5e89bb4777695beb702e37df12b9c9ef473cb9b8696fd6a236a6732de5bfce67350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: bms@spc.org cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: bv@wjv.com cc: jhs@berklix.org cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 03:10:49 -0000 M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I agree. termcap.small is amazingly uncurrent. However, perhaps some > : merging and reducing is in order. Why is a full cons25 or vt2xx needed? > : vi only needs a few capabilities. I think we mostly use copies of large > : termcap entries because copying the whole things is easier. > > You have a good point. My termcap was done so that we could run a > number of applications... > > Grepping seems unsatisfying to find out which keys are used. Do you > have a list? > > Warner Is the extra maintenance worth it to save a few hundred bytes? It might even make sense to dynamically generate termcap.tiny at build time by pulling out the entries in /etc/termcap for a selected list of terminal types. Then, no extra maintenance would be needed. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com