diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/package.mk b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/package.mk
index e64235f9ab..ebc8047b11 100644
--- a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/package.mk
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/package.mk
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.tvdr.de"
 PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain fontconfig freetype libcap libjpeg-turbo bzip2 ncurses"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain fontconfig freetype libcap libjpeg-turbo bzip2"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="vdr: A powerful DVB TV application"
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ PKG_LONGDESC="This project describes how to build your own digital satellite rec
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
 
+post_unpack() {
+  rm -rf $PKG_BUILD/PLUGINS/src/skincurses
+}
+
 pre_configure_target() {
   export LDFLAGS=$(echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-Wl,--as-needed||")
 }
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/patches/vdr-98-ncurses.patch b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/patches/vdr-98-ncurses.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a9a897d96..0000000000
--- a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/patches/vdr-98-ncurses.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/Makefile b/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/Makefile
-index fa0ce41..5c71bcf 100644
---- a/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/Makefile
-+++ b/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/Makefile
-@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ install-i18n: $(I18Nmsgs)
- ### Targets:
- 
- $(SOFILE): $(OBJS)
--	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS) -lncursesw -o $@
-+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS) -lncurses -o $@
- 
- install-lib: $(SOFILE)
- 	install -D $^ $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/$^.$(APIVERSION)
-diff --git a/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/skincurses.c b/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/skincurses.c
-index 8a4da96..4c2eeed 100644
---- a/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/skincurses.c
-+++ b/PLUGINS/src/skincurses/skincurses.c
-@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
-  * $Id: skincurses.c 2.13 2013/03/31 09:30:18 kls Exp $
-  */
- 
--#include <ncurses.h>
-+#include <ncurses/ncurses.h>
- #include <vdr/osd.h>
- #include <vdr/plugin.h>
- #include <vdr/skins.h>