diff --git a/net-misc/ytalk/ytalk-3.3.0.ebuild b/net-misc/ytalk/ytalk-3.3.0.ebuild
index 6450ab761bea1..f03dde55d34be 100644
--- a/net-misc/ytalk/ytalk-3.3.0.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/ytalk/ytalk-3.3.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ppc ~ppc64 sparc x86"
 
-RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2"
+RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2:0="
 DEPEND="
 	${RDEPEND}
 	virtual/pkgconfig