diff --git a/net-misc/zssh/zssh-1.5c-r1.ebuild b/net-misc/zssh/zssh-1.5c-r1.ebuild
index 31bceeeb6c2f9..6ba687af4f6ff 100644
--- a/net-misc/zssh/zssh-1.5c-r1.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/zssh/zssh-1.5c-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ KEYWORDS="amd64 ~ppc sparc x86"
 IUSE="nls readline"
 
 DEPEND="readline? (
-		sys-libs/ncurses
+		sys-libs/ncurses:0
 		sys-libs/readline:0
 	)"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}