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+# htop 3.5.1 — monitor de procesos interactivo. Etapa G, tier-2 C. Consumidor TUI canónico de
+# ncurses: valida la capa CURSES real (ventanas/teclado/colores), no sólo el lookup de terminfo de less.
+#
+# Importada de Alpine aports (release tarball, trae configure). Ajustes:
+#   - deps.build = ["ncurses", "linux-headers"]: htop usa la API de curses widec (-lncursesw) y headers
+#     de Linux (taskstats/cgroup). Quito lm-sensors del makedepends de Alpine: el soporte de sensores
+#     es OPCIONAL (libsensors auto-detectado) y no está en el corpus ⇒ `--disable-sensors` explícito.
+#   - compiler=gcc (gueto, igual que ncurses/less): zig-cc miscompila estos C clásicos.
+#   - link=static + sin libtool en el link del binario ⇒ LDFLAGS=-static del lab basta (htop static-pie).
+#     htop auto-detecta ncursesw (widec) para soporte unicode — la ncurses del corpus es widec.
+#
+# $CBUILD/$CHOST los da el lab (build==host ⇒ nativo).
+
+name    = "htop"
+version = "3.5.1"
+
+[source]
+tarball = "https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/releases/download/3.5.1/htop-3.5.1.tar.xz"
+sha256  = "526cecd62870aa8d14d2a79a35ea197e4e2b5317d275b567cee0574b2ddb2e9a"
+
+[build]
+compiler = "gcc"
+target   = "x86_64-linux-musl"
+link     = "static"
+
+[build.phases]
+configure = "./configure --build=$CBUILD --host=$CHOST --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-cgroup --enable-taskstats --disable-sensors"
+compile   = "make -j\"$(nproc)\""
+install   = "make DESTDIR=/out install"
+
+[deps]
+build = ["ncurses", "linux-headers"]