New comment by Duncaen on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/14488#issuecomment-770233386 Comment: But where would this end, would we add `ncurses-base` to everything that depends on ncurses i.e. util-linux because of cfdisk (which would effectively pull `ncurses-base` into `base-minimal`)? The point is that `ncurses-base` is part of the `base-system` to avoid that, `base-minmal` doesn't have it to avoid blowing up the size for containers that are not going to be used interactively.