diff --git a/app-editors/efte/efte-1.1-r1.ebuild b/app-editors/efte/efte-1.1-r1.ebuild
index d5b7990d9b509..cc6ac21cffbee 100644
--- a/app-editors/efte/efte-1.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/efte/efte-1.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses
 	)"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
-src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-flags.patch \
-		"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-desktopfile.patch
-}
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-flags.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-desktopfile.patch
+)
 
 src_configure() {
 	local mycmakeargs=(