diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs
index 91b856ffd..857b4df38 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs
@@ -413,8 +413,30 @@ hasOutputFile = do
 
 -- Terminal size
 
+-- [NOTE: Alternative methods of getting the terminal size]
+-- terminal-size uses the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl to get the window size on Unix
+-- systems, which may not be completely portable according to people in
+-- #linux@liberachat.
+--
+-- If this turns out to be the case, supplementary coverage can be given by
+-- using the terminfo package.
+--
+-- Conversely, terminfo on its own is not a full solution, firstly because it
+-- only works on Unix (not Windows), and secondly since in some scenarios (eg
+-- stripped-down build systems) the terminfo database may be limited and lack
+-- the correct entries. (A hack that sometimes works but which isn't robust
+-- enough to be relied upon is to set TERM=dumb -- while this advice does appear
+-- in some places, it's not guaranteed to work)
+--
+-- In any case, $LINES/$COLUMNS should not be used as a source for the terminal
+-- size -- that is a bashism, and in particular they aren't updated as the
+-- terminal is resized.
+--
+-- See #2332 for details
+
 -- | An alternative to ansi-terminal's getTerminalSize, based on
 -- the more robust-looking terminal-size package.
+--
 -- Tries to get stdout's terminal's current height and width.
 getTerminalHeightWidth :: IO (Maybe (Int,Int))
 getTerminalHeightWidth = fmap (fmap unwindow) size
diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CliOptions.hs b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CliOptions.hs
index 8efbf0edc..1b1997f47 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CliOptions.hs
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CliOptions.hs
@@ -107,9 +107,7 @@ import String.ANSI
 import System.Console.CmdArgs hiding (Default,def)
 import System.Console.CmdArgs.Explicit
 import System.Console.CmdArgs.Text
-#ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS
-import System.Console.Terminfo
-#endif
+import Hledger.Utils.IO (getTerminalWidth)
 import System.Directory
 import System.Environment
 import System.Exit (exitSuccess)
@@ -618,13 +616,7 @@ rawOptsToCliOpts rawopts = do
   let iopts = rawOptsToInputOpts day usecolor postingaccttags rawopts
   rspec <- either error' pure $ rawOptsToReportSpec day usecolor rawopts  -- PARTIAL:
   mcolumns <- readMay <$> getEnvSafe "COLUMNS"
-  mtermwidth <-
-#ifdef mingw32_HOST_OS
-    return Nothing
-#else
-    (`getCapability` termColumns) <$> setupTermFromEnv
-    -- XXX Throws a SetupTermError if the terminfo database could not be read, should catch
-#endif
+  mtermwidth <- getTerminalWidth
   let availablewidth = NE.head $ NE.fromList $ catMaybes [mcolumns, mtermwidth, Just defaultWidth]  -- PARTIAL: fromList won't fail because non-null list
   return defcliopts {
               rawopts_         = rawopts
diff --git a/hledger/hledger.cabal b/hledger/hledger.cabal
index 5d027ec80..eb14485e9 100644
--- a/hledger/hledger.cabal
+++ b/hledger/hledger.cabal
@@ -98,11 +98,6 @@ flag debug
   manual: True
   default: False
 
-flag terminfo
-  description: On POSIX systems, build with the terminfo lib for detecting terminal width
-  manual: False
-  default: True
-
 flag threaded
   description: Build with support for multithreaded execution
   manual: False
@@ -195,9 +190,6 @@ library
     , utility-ht >=0.0.13
     , wizards >=1.0
   default-language: Haskell2010
-  if (!(os(windows))) && (flag(terminfo))
-    build-depends:
-        terminfo
   if (flag(debug))
     cpp-options: -DDEBUG
 
@@ -247,9 +239,6 @@ executable hledger
     , utility-ht >=0.0.13
     , wizards >=1.0
   default-language: Haskell2010
-  if (!(os(windows))) && (flag(terminfo))
-    build-depends:
-        terminfo
   if (flag(debug))
     cpp-options: -DDEBUG
   if flag(threaded)
@@ -300,9 +289,6 @@ test-suite unittest
     , utility-ht >=0.0.13
     , wizards >=1.0
   default-language: Haskell2010
-  if (!(os(windows))) && (flag(terminfo))
-    build-depends:
-        terminfo
   if (flag(debug))
     cpp-options: -DDEBUG
 
@@ -353,8 +339,5 @@ benchmark bench
     , wizards >=1.0
   buildable: False
   default-language: Haskell2010
-  if (!(os(windows))) && (flag(terminfo))
-    build-depends:
-        terminfo
   if (flag(debug))
     cpp-options: -DDEBUG