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Anyone else uninstall ncurses and realise how important of a package it is... (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by squid_slime@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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Well I did, wanted the git version so uninstalled ncurses to then blissfully install ncurses-git and low and behold my system shat.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For what does bash use ncurses‽

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a dependency of readline.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, that makes sense I guess. 👍