I believe that slang uses the terminfo database, so we need to keep terminfo regardless of what happens to curses. We may want to separate our terminfo database into an entirely new set of packages, unrelated to any library. As for BSD curses, I had terrible times with that when trying to port the Frotz interpreter. If so, have fun. This is a really miserable situation.
Curses is too important to a lot of software to let our best implementation of it die.
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