diff --git a/packages/tools/dialog/build b/packages/tools/dialog/build
index 36860f5c7e..eb4fecf1a8 100755
--- a/packages/tools/dialog/build
+++ b/packages/tools/dialog/build
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-$SCRIPTS/build ncurses
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 
 ac_cv_path_NCURSES_CONFIG="$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/ncurses-config" \
diff --git a/packages/tools/dialog/install b/packages/tools/dialog/install
index 1663879f1b..7096d78a6a 100755
--- a/packages/tools/dialog/install
+++ b/packages/tools/dialog/install
@@ -2,7 +2,5 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/install ncurses
-
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
   cp $PKG_BUILD/dialog $INSTALL/usr/bin
diff --git a/packages/tools/dialog/meta b/packages/tools/dialog/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f435cb2b3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/tools/dialog/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="dialog"
+PKG_VERSION="1.1-20100428"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
+PKG_URL="ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tgz"
+PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain ncurses"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="tools"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="dialog: A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces from shell scripts. Dialog is initally written by Savio Lam and various branches do exist (e.g. lxdialog which is used for a linux kernel make menuconfig). This is the branch maintained by Thomas Dickey."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/tools/dialog/url b/packages/tools/dialog/url
deleted file mode 100644
index 580adcdd76..0000000000
--- a/packages/tools/dialog/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog-1.1-20100428.tgz