diff --git a/archiver/mine/ncurses.patch b/archiver/mine/gasgui-use-dialog-config.patch
similarity index 50%
rename from archiver/mine/ncurses.patch
rename to archiver/mine/gasgui-use-dialog-config.patch
index cd990349b..60e890a74 100644
--- a/archiver/mine/ncurses.patch
+++ b/archiver/mine/gasgui-use-dialog-config.patch
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
-# Filename: package/.../mine/ncurses.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2006 The OpenSDE Project
+# Filename: package/.../mine/gasgui-use-dialog-config.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 #
@@ -14,19 +14,27 @@
 # version.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-link against ncurses, not just curses. libcurses was not found.
-missing compatibility link?
+Description: Use dialog-config to determine the needed LDFLAGS for libdialog
 
-amery
+This way we do not have to worry about if we have to link against
+the narrowc or the widec version of libncurses.
 
---- ./Makefile.orig	2006-09-06 11:12:35.000000000 +0000
-+++ ./Makefile	2006-09-06 11:12:46.000000000 +0000
-@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
- 	$(CC) $(MINE_ALL_OBJS) -static -o mine.static
+--- ./Makefile.orig	2011-03-23 17:33:23.964072236 +0100
++++ ./Makefile	2011-03-23 18:48:53.956072238 +0100
+@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
+ #
+ GAS_VER = $(MINE_VER)
+ GAS_OBJ = gasgui.o readdb.o selector.o memdb.o
++GAS_DIALOG_LDFLAGS = $(shell dialog-config --libs)
+ 
+ # Let's use AVL for the memory DB
+ #
+@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@
+ 	$(CC) -static $(MINE_ALL_OBJS) $(MINE_ALL_LIBS) -o mine.static
  
  gasgui: $(GAS_OBJ)
 -	$(CC) $(GAS_OBJ) -ldialog -lcurses -lm -o gasgui
-+	$(CC) $(GAS_OBJ) -ldialog -lncurses -lm -o gasgui
++	$(CC) $(GAS_OBJ) $(GAS_DIALOG_LDFLAGS) -o gasgui
  
  install: all
  	install mine $(sysprefix)/bin/mine