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@redhat.com>
---
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