New comment by Duncaen on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/28377#issuecomment-770776440 Comment: The consensus is that packages shouldn't depend on ncurses-base, packages use some terminfo that can't be expressed as dependency as it depends on your TERM variable. Generally ncurses-base should be installed as part of the base system i.e. the base-system metapackage, it's deliberately not Part of base-minimal as it would increase container sizes. If we would start to add ncurses-base to everything that might need it, we would effectively add it to base-minimal as i.e. util-linux's cfdisk "depends" on terminfo descriptions.