diff --git a/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.3.3.ebuild b/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.3.3.ebuild
index 784a43072ae82..b1a454a4e0828 100644
--- a/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.3.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.3.3.ebuild
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 		dev-python/h5py[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/jplephem[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/matplotlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP},jpeg]
+		dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP},jpeg(+)]
 		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/sphinx-gallery[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
diff --git a/dev-python/astropy/astropy-2.0.1.ebuild b/dev-python/astropy/astropy-2.0.1.ebuild
index 65cd60ea569d8..fb535d4fd513e 100644
--- a/dev-python/astropy/astropy-2.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/astropy/astropy-2.0.1.ebuild
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/numpy-1.10[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/objgraph[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/pandas[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP},jpeg]
+	dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP},jpeg(+)]
 	dev-python/pytz[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]