diff --git a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
index 70ec241..f46e0a2 100644
--- a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
+++ b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
@@ -10,35 +10,11 @@ LICENSE="BSD-3 ISC public-domain"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
-DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses-compat"
+DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 
 src_configure() {
-	cat > conftest.c <<-EOF
-		#include <term.h>
-		#include <ncurses.h>
-		int main(void) { setupterm(NULL, 0, NULL); return 0; }
-	EOF
-
-	echo "=== testing -lcurses ==="
-	if ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o conftest.o -c conftest.c &&
-		${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o conftest conftest.o -lcurses
-	then
-		echo "=== -lcurses WORKS ==="
-	else
-		echo "=== -lcurses FAILED ==="
-	fi
-
-	echo "=== testing -lncurses ==="
-	if ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o conftest.o -c conftest.c &&
-		${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o conftest conftest.o -lncurses
-	then
-		echo "=== -lncurses WORKS ==="
-	else
-		echo "=== -lncurses FAILED ==="
-	fi
-
 	econf --enable-curses
 }