diff --git a/dev-python/jaraco-classes/jaraco-classes-2.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/jaraco-classes/jaraco-classes-2.0-r1.ebuild
index 5bb9da703f891..d9847a4bfa736 100644
--- a/dev-python/jaraco-classes/jaraco-classes-2.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/jaraco-classes/jaraco-classes-2.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_PN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="doc test"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/namespace-jaraco-2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
@@ -24,11 +25,6 @@ RDEPEND="
 "
 DEPEND="
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	doc? ( $(python_gen_any_dep '
-			>=dev-python/jaraco-packaging-3.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-			>=dev-python/rst-linker-1.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-			dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]')
-	)
 	test? (
 		${RDEPEND}
 		>=dev-python/pytest-2.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
@@ -37,14 +33,9 @@ DEPEND="
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${PV}"
 
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-python_check_deps() {
-	use doc || return 0
-	has_version ">=dev-python/jaraco-packaging-3.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" && \
-		has_version ">=dev-python/rst-linker-1.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" && \
-		has_version "dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-}
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs \
+	">=dev-python/jaraco-packaging-3.2" \
+	">=dev-python/rst-linker-1.9"
 
 python_prepare_all() {
 	# avoid a setuptools_scm dependency
@@ -55,14 +46,6 @@ python_prepare_all() {
 	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
 }
 
-python_compile_all() {
-	if use doc; then
-			cd docs || die
-			sphinx-build . _build/html || die
-			HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
-	fi
-}
-
 python_test() {
 	# Avoid ImportMismatchError, override pytest options to skip flake8
 	pytest -vv "${BUILD_DIR}"/lib --override-ini="addopts=--doctest-modules" \