diff --git a/app-editors/ee/ee-1.5.2.ebuild b/app-editors/ee/ee-1.5.2-r1.ebuild
similarity index 90%
rename from app-editors/ee/ee-1.5.2.ebuild
rename to app-editors/ee/ee-1.5.2-r1.ebuild
index 0cf7383a4c7e4..3abbc7fc930cf 100644
--- a/app-editors/ee/ee-1.5.2.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/ee/ee-1.5.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI="7"
@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"
 IUSE=""
 
-RDEPEND="!app-editors/ersatz-emacs"
+RDEPEND="
+	!app-editors/ersatz-emacs
+	sys-libs/ncurses:=
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
+
 S="${WORKDIR}/easyedit-${PV}"
 
 PATCHES=(