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libncurses: no binaries included as in ncurses package

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Maintainer: @Andy2244
Environment: ramips/mt7621, OpenWrt 22.03.0-rc5

Description:
My understanding is that currently ncurses package is split into libncurses and libncurses-dev.

There is no option to get the binaries, or progs as the ncurses package calls them for the target:
tic, infocmp, captoinfo, tset, reset, clear, tput, toe, tabs

Could you provide another ifdef called Package/libncurses-bin or Package/libncurses-progs to the Makefile that builds and packages just the binaries from the ncurses package?

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Start with the ncurses package Makefile and trace how the existing libncurses and libncurses-dev packages are defined. Check how a separate package could include tic, infocmp, captoinfo, tset, reset, clear, tput, toe, and tabs, then verify the target package contains those binaries.

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build-system, cli
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Feature
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Estimated time
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