forcing applications to build against wide versions of ncurses

[Mike Frysinger]

rather than changing packages to include ncursesw/ncurses.h and link 
against -lncursesw, some people in Gentoo want to change the default headers 
and linkable libraries to point to the wide versions of ncurses ... so binary 
compatibility will be retained (libncurses.so.5 and libncursesw.so.5 will be 
the correct libraries), but when you do #include <ncurses.h> and -lncurses, 
you'll actually be including/linking the wide versions

personally, i dislike this idea, but i'd present some logic reasons when i say 
no, but i'm not exactly (really) an expert on ncurses :)

can this safely be done in the first place ?  if you have an application that 
is not wide character aware, is it safe to build/link it against the wide 
version of ncurses ?
-mike

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