diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use b/profiles/base/package.use
index 7196d9e89b23e176d780bb27d42a8ae3d6d579c7..5437f419191843308707ee5ca4e258b70e418484 100644
--- a/profiles/base/package.use
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ media-gfx/fontforge X cairo gtk jpeg png readline svg -python
 media-gfx/imagemagick X bzip2 fontconfig fpx jpeg jpeg2k lcms lzma openexr openmp png postscript svg tiff truetype webp wmf xml zlib
 media-gfx/krita color-management openexr tiff
 media-libs/gd fontconfig jpeg png tiff truetype webp xpm zlib
-media-libs/libgphoto2 exif gd jpeg serial
+media-libs/libgphoto2 exif gd jpeg
 media-libs/libsndfile minimal
 media-libs/opencolorio opengl
 media-libs/openimageio ffmpeg gif jpeg2k opengl python
diff --git a/profiles/base/packages b/profiles/base/packages
index 7956bbb5a4cbb98b9f0a7cb7328ed9e1c25e7dfa..f5a708dd6c81d5d8d7a1478518643de7de25540f 100644
--- a/profiles/base/packages
+++ b/profiles/base/packages
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ net-print/cups
 
 # tabs(1)
 # tput(1)
-*sys-libs/ncurses
+*sys-libs/ncurses:0
 
 # uudecode(1)
 # uuencode(1)