diff --git a/sys-block/parted/metadata.xml b/sys-block/parted/metadata.xml
index 57a676994422c..54903f1e1aa06 100644
--- a/sys-block/parted/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-block/parted/metadata.xml
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-<herd>livecd</herd>
-<use>
-	<flag name='device-mapper'>
+	<herd>livecd</herd>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="device-mapper">
 	Enable device-mapper support from <pkg>sys-fs/lvm2</pkg> in parted
 	</flag>
-	<flag name="debug">
+		<flag name="debug">
 	Enable debugging as encouraged by upstream: [The default configuration]
 	includes --enable-debug (by default), which contains many assertions.
 	Obviously, these "waste" space, but in the past, they have caught
 	potentially dangerous bugs before they would have done damage, so we think
 	it's worth it.  Also, it means we get more bug reports ;)
 	</flag>
-</use>
+	</use>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sys-block/parted/parted-2.4.ebuild b/sys-block/parted/parted-2.4.ebuild
index 2e7ae565ce870..fe0b0e079f279 100644
--- a/sys-block/parted/parted-2.4.ebuild
+++ b/sys-block/parted/parted-2.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ RESTRICT="test"
 # to fix bug 85999
 RDEPEND="
 	>=sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.27
-	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2
+	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2:5=
 	device-mapper? ( >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45 )
-	readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-5.2 )
+	readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-5.2:0= )
 	selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
 "
 DEPEND="
diff --git a/sys-block/parted/parted-3.2.ebuild b/sys-block/parted/parted-3.2.ebuild
index e89f3eb167370..a3a8786b034b4 100644
--- a/sys-block/parted/parted-3.2.ebuild
+++ b/sys-block/parted/parted-3.2.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # $Id$
 
 EAPI=5
+
 inherit autotools eutils
 
 DESCRIPTION="Create, destroy, resize, check, copy partitions and file systems"
@@ -19,9 +20,9 @@ RESTRICT="test"
 # to fix bug 85999
 RDEPEND="
 	>=sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.27
-	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r7
+	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r7:5=
 	device-mapper? ( >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45 )
-	readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-5.2 )
+	readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-5.2:0= )
 	selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
 "
 DEPEND="
@@ -31,9 +32,9 @@ DEPEND="
 "
 
 src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.2-devmapper.patch
-
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.2-po4a-mandir.patch
+	epatch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.2-devmapper.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.2-po4a-mandir.patch
 	eautoreconf
 }