--- /usr/portage/sys-libs/readline/readline-4.3-r5.ebuild	2004-11-12 15:10:56.000000000 +0000
+++ readline-4.3-r5.ebuild	2004-11-16 12:03:08.000000000 +0000
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 # to its internal readline, else we may get problems.
 DEPEND=">=app-shells/bash-2.05b-r2
 	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2"
+RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2"
 
 src_unpack() {
 	unpack ${P}.tar.gz
@@ -35,6 +36,8 @@
 }
 
 src_compile() {
+	# should solve missing tgetent building python
+	sed -i -e 's:^SHLIB_LIBS=.*:SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses:' support/shobj-conf
 	# the --libdir= is needed because if lib64 is a directory, it will default
 	# to using that... even if CONF_LIBDIR isnt set or we're using a version
 	# of portage without CONF_LIBDIR support.