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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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