diff --git a/app-editors/nano/nano-8.0.ebuild b/app-editors/nano/nano-8.0.ebuild
index 1ab91a8b3d8f4..4fd1b503d2c78 100644
--- a/app-editors/nano/nano-8.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/nano/nano-8.0.ebuild
@@ -19,19 +19,15 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://www.nano-editor.org/ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nano/Guide"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ LGPL-2.1+ || ( GPL-3+ FDL-1.2+ )"
 SLOT="0"
-IUSE="debug justify magic minimal ncurses nls +spell static unicode"
+IUSE="debug justify magic minimal ncurses nls +spell unicode"
 
-LIB_DEPEND="
+RDEPEND="
 	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r1:=[unicode(+)?]
-	sys-libs/ncurses:=[static-libs(+)]
-	magic? ( sys-apps/file[static-libs(+)] )
+	sys-libs/ncurses:=
+	magic? ( sys-apps/file )
 	nls? ( virtual/libintl )
 "
-RDEPEND="!static? ( ${LIB_DEPEND//\[static-libs(+)]} )"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	static? ( ${LIB_DEPEND} )
-"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
 	virtual/pkgconfig
@@ -53,8 +49,6 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 src_configure() {
-	use static && append-ldflags -static
-
 	local myconfargs=(
 		--bindir="${EPREFIX}"/bin
 		--htmldir=/trash
diff --git a/app-editors/nano/nano-9999.ebuild b/app-editors/nano/nano-9999.ebuild
index e66a301a6c4b3..864ebe37cbae9 100644
--- a/app-editors/nano/nano-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/nano/nano-9999.ebuild
@@ -19,19 +19,15 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://www.nano-editor.org/ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nano/Guide"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ LGPL-2.1+ || ( GPL-3+ FDL-1.2+ )"
 SLOT="0"
-IUSE="debug justify magic minimal ncurses nls +spell static unicode"
+IUSE="debug justify magic minimal ncurses nls +spell unicode"
 
-LIB_DEPEND="
+RDEPEND="
 	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r1:=[unicode(+)?]
-	sys-libs/ncurses:=[static-libs(+)]
-	magic? ( sys-apps/file[static-libs(+)] )
+	sys-libs/ncurses:=
+	magic? ( sys-apps/file )
 	nls? ( virtual/libintl )
 "
-RDEPEND="!static? ( ${LIB_DEPEND//\[static-libs(+)]} )"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	static? ( ${LIB_DEPEND} )
-"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
 	virtual/pkgconfig
@@ -53,8 +49,6 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 src_configure() {
-	use static && append-ldflags -static
-
 	local myconfargs=(
 		--bindir="${EPREFIX}"/bin
 		--htmldir=/trash