Created attachment 364672 [details, diff] patch for gettext-0.18.3.1-r2 ncurses is now an optional dependency; http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-April/077728.html This is especially important for cross-compiling to platforms that don't support ncurses (eg, mingw) and the patch is very simple.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add USE=ncurses flag to control ncurses dependency http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.18.2.ebuild?r1=1.13&r2=1.14 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.18.3.1-r1.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3