diff --git a/dev-cpp/notcurses/notcurses-2.2.3.ebuild b/dev-cpp/notcurses/notcurses-2.2.3.ebuild
index 52303eeff6fe9..9715255eb4f21 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/notcurses/notcurses-2.2.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/notcurses/notcurses-2.2.3.ebuild
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 
-DEPEND="dev-libs/libunistring
+DEPEND="dev-libs/libunistring:=
 	media-video/ffmpeg
-	>=sys-libs/readline-8.0"
+	>=sys-libs/readline-8.0:="
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 src_configure() {