diff --git a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.recipe b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.recipe
index 82940159c..d7176afed 100644
--- a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.recipe
+++ b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.recipe
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ SOURCE_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="9046298fb440324c9d4135ecea7879ffed8546dd1b58e59430ea07a4633f563b"
 PATCHES="ncurses-5.9.patchset"
 
-ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 ?x86 ?x86_64 ?arm"
+# Do not re-activate this package unless it is absolutely necessary. By default,
+# haikuporter picks the lowest possible version of a package to satisfy a depen-
+# dency, so this gets pulled in before ncurses6.
+ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 ?x86 ?x86_64 ?arm"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 x86"
 
 PROVIDES="