>	does mutt really require ncurses?

it looks for it, presumably because some of the systems on which one
might build mutt have a really old curses library, and getting a much
newer and more functional ncurses library is much easier than getting
the vendor to upgrade.

>	- if it does not require ncurses, it shouldnot use -lncurses.

well...true.

>	- if it does, --with-curses=/usr/pkg looks just fine.

it doesn't *depend* on ncurses though, so if that fix is actually
determined to be "correct", then the dependencies for mutt will need
to be updated.

i still think it feels wrong.

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