diff --git a/app-editors/nedit/nedit-5.7.ebuild b/app-editors/nedit/nedit-5.7.ebuild
index 5702d3b8f2726..77e32da201753 100644
--- a/app-editors/nedit/nedit-5.7.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/nedit/nedit-5.7.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ RDEPEND=">=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
 	x11-libs/libXt
 	x11-libs/libX11"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	|| ( dev-util/yacc sys-devel/bison )
+	|| ( dev-util/yacc app-alternatives/yacc )
 	dev-lang/perl"
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}"