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Merging ncurses and ncursesw



I've fallen down the rabbit hole while investigating the python311 vs ncurses fallout, and found a huge mess. I'm in the process of cleaning it all up, but there is one thing I'd like to propose separately.

I don't think it makes any sense to continue with the split packages of devel/ncurses and devel/ncursesw. As far as I can see we are alone in doing this amongst packaging systems, and it just causes problems.

Much of the cruft in devel/ncurses{,w}/builtin.mk that I am cleaning up was moved over 10 years ago now to mk/curses.*, and while having a split may have made sense back in 2006, I see no reason for it now.

Please let me know if there is something I'm missing.

Thanks,

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