diff --git a/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.6.ebuild b/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.6.ebuild
index b23d895999633..1dcb23acd7cca 100644
--- a/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.6.ebuild
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
+AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no
 inherit autotools eutils libtool multilib toolchain-funcs multilib-minimal
 
 DESCRIPTION="Stream-oriented XML parser library"
diff --git a/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.7.ebuild b/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.7.ebuild
index 47730ae142da8..e4b0929879eae 100644
--- a/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.7.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.2.7.ebuild
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
+AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no
 inherit autotools eutils libtool multilib toolchain-funcs multilib-minimal
 
 DESCRIPTION="Stream-oriented XML parser library"
@@ -12,8 +13,7 @@ LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~ppc-aix ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris ~x86-winnt"
 IUSE="elibc_FreeBSD examples static-libs unicode"
-DEPEND="unicode? ( ${AUTOTOOLS_DEPEND} )"
-RDEPEND=""
+BDEPEND="unicode? ( ${AUTOTOOLS_DEPEND} )"
 
 DOCS=( README.md )