We don't actually use ncurses directly: readline needs it, but that's a readline implementation detail and not something that we should concern ourselves with. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Test pipeline where I've tweaked all CI environments so that ncurses is not explicitly installed, and in the case of macOS pkg-config is not configured in a way that allows it to locate ncurses.pc: https://gitlab.com/abologna/libvirt/-/pipelines/168175622 libvirt.spec.in | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index f335a7e06e..029159269b 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ BuildRequires: readline-devel %if %{with_bash_completion} BuildRequires: bash-completion >= 2.0 %endif -BuildRequires: ncurses-devel BuildRequires: gettext BuildRequires: libtasn1-devel BuildRequires: gnutls-devel @@ -901,7 +900,6 @@ capabilities of VirtualBox Summary: Client side utilities of the libvirt library Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release} Requires: readline -Requires: ncurses # Needed by /usr/libexec/libvirt-guests.sh script. Requires: gettext # Needed by virt-pki-validate script. -- 2.25.4