Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] Make ncurses dependency optional

On 7/18/2012 11:26 PM, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On 7/18/2012 7:54 AM, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
>>> Make ncurses dependency optional. Provide --without-ncurses option
>>> to configure.
>> I'm sorry but this patch is disgusting;
>> PowerTOP uses ncurses. Really.
>>
>> crapping ifdefs all over the codebase to pretend it does not, we're just
>> really not going to do that this way.
> I agree that lots of #ifdefs are ugly. But some mobile platforms doesn't
> have ncurses. 

then maybe those mobile platforms should add ncurses?

I did not realize Tizen lacked ncurses for example, sounds daft to be
honest.