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Re: dte: remove curses and terminfo includes



> Breaking changes:
> - Removed support for linking to the system terminfo library. The
>   terminfo database has only been used as a last resort source of
>   information for several releases now. Most terminals that people
>   are likely to be using already have built-in support in the editor,
>   including several capabilities not available from terminfo. This is
>   listed as a breaking change because it may break support for a few
>   archaic hardware terminals (primarily those that aren't ECMA-48
>   compatible or whose terminfo strings contain mandatory padding).

I'd say given this information, we leave them out. I can write
something up in the COMMIT_MSG to explain it as Greg mentioned.


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