Created attachment 211674 [details] proposed patch Base ncurses in all supported versions has libncursesw, so there's no need to use ports ncurses for unicode support, or make it optional.
good catch, I've submitted a port update PR-244151 to remove dependancy to devel/ncurses
A commit references this bug: Author: swills Date: Mon Feb 17 00:26:19 UTC 2020 New revision: 526332 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/526332 Log: net/sngrep: allow base ncurses [1] While here: * Update default options [2] * Remove REINPLACE_CMD which was no longer necessary PR: 244141 [1] PR: 244151 [2] Approved by: Talal Al Dik <tad@vif.com> (maintainer) [1] Submitted by: Talal Al Dik <tad@vif.com> (maintainer) [2] Changes: head/net/sngrep/Makefile
Committed, thanks!