Comment # 3 on bug 936332 from Dr. Werner Fink

From changelog:

 Tue Apr 22 16:57:32 CEST 2008 - werner@suse.de
 - Split ncurses into two separate packages ncurses-utils and
   terminfo-base to get the resolvers happy (bnc#381293)


and as you can see from bug #381293 it was you who has requested this split ;)