diff --git a/x11-misc/alock/alock-1.0.0.ebuild b/x11-misc/alock/alock-1.0.0.ebuild
index cdbbba3dd5bec..a0e77239d2d53 100644
--- a/x11-misc/alock/alock-1.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/x11-misc/alock/alock-1.0.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -25,14 +25,13 @@ DEPEND="x11-libs/libX11
 	doc? ( app-text/asciidoc )"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
-src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/implicit_pointer_conversion_fix_amd64.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/check-setuid.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/tidy-printf.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/fix-aliasing.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/no-xf86misc.patch
-	eapply_user
-}
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/implicit_pointer_conversion_fix_amd64.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/check-setuid.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/tidy-printf.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/fix-aliasing.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/no-xf86misc.patch
+)
 
 src_configure() {
 	tc-export CC