Re: misc/59965 (terminfo(5): missing rxvt-unicode)

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:10:00 +0000
> From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
> 
> terminfo patches - this is probably good to go
> https://mollari.netbsd.org/~roy/terminfo-cdbdir.patch
> 
> rxvtv-unicode patches - this probably needs some more work
> https://mollari.netbsd.org/~roy/rxvt-unicode-terminfo.patch

Thanks!  Looks like the pkgsrc one needs `cvs add mk/terminfo.mk', or
can you just share the new file?

> ${PREFIX}/share/terminfo is a directory
> NetBSD tic will output: ${PREFIX}/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode.cdb
> ncurses tic will output: ${PREFIX}/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode OR ${PREFIX}/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode.db depeding on how it's built
> [...]
> cdb won't work well with unions, we would need to consult each source all the time and if there is any error then boom, things stop.
> For pkgsrc, a compiled term description per terminal is a better way forwards I think.

OK, thanks.  Why do we have a .cdb file at all, though, if it just
contains one description?  I thought the whole point of using a .cdb
file is to enable fast lookup of many descriptions in a single file.
If there's one per file, why not just have the file content be the
compiled description, and skip the cdb indirection?