diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc b/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
index a1b0829e1f..e8b5d054b3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-DEPENDS = "ncurses virtual/libintl"
+DEPENDS = "virtual/libintl"
 
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2+"
 LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2+"