diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index d134a4a..7ee3037 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
         * Bind with Satan / start using autoconf.
         * Fix a bug in automatic authorization that revealed the username
           and password in ps output, by munging argv.
-        * Fix dgl-create-chroot's copying of terminfo - the terminfo dir
-          might be full of symlinks, so dereference them by passing -L to
-          cp. It's SUSv3, honest!
+        * Fix dgl-create-chroot's copying of terminfo by choosing a sane
+          default.
         * Now compiles with Tiny C Compiler.
 
 1.4.5 (2004/06/14)
diff --git a/dgl-create-chroot b/dgl-create-chroot
index 42ac4ab..76ed434 100755
--- a/dgl-create-chroot
+++ b/dgl-create-chroot
@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@ playground_fixed="/usr/lib/games/nethack"
 # variable data to create (leave blank to skip) (may be equal to previous)
 playground_var="/var/games/nethack"
 # termcap/terminfo (copied recursively) (leave blank to skip)
-termdata="/usr/share/terminfo"
+if [ -d "/etc/terminfo" ]; then
+  termdata="/etc/terminfo"
+elif [ -d "/usr/share/lib/terminfo" ]; then
+  termdata="/usr/share/lib/terminfo"
+else
+  termdata="/usr/share/terminfo"
+fi
 
 [ -f dgl-create-chroot.conf ] && . ./dgl-create-chroot.conf
 
@@ -122,8 +128,7 @@ fi
 if [ -n "$termdata" ]; then
 	mkdir -p $chroot_path`dirname $termdata`
 	if [ -d $termdata/. ]; then
-		# $termdata might be full of symlinks, like Debian is
-		cp -L -R $termdata/. $chroot_path$termdata
+		cp -R $termdata/. $chroot_path$termdata
 	else
 		cp $termdata $chroot_path`dirname $termdata`
 	fi