diff --git a/dev-python/netcdf4/metadata.xml b/dev-python/netcdf4/metadata.xml
index 7ae0208c4dbb6..0c5cd3f8533ef 100644
--- a/dev-python/netcdf4/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/netcdf4/metadata.xml
@@ -20,4 +20,9 @@
 		<remote-id type="github">unidata/netcdf4-python</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">netCDF4</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="blosc">
+			Allow using blosc compression via <pkg>dev-libs/c-blosc</pkg>
+		</flag>
+	</use>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/netcdf4/netcdf4-1.7.1.ebuild b/dev-python/netcdf4/netcdf4-1.7.1-r1.ebuild
similarity index 90%
rename from dev-python/netcdf4/netcdf4-1.7.1.ebuild
rename to dev-python/netcdf4/netcdf4-1.7.1-r1.ebuild
index 655ef46867fd1..8ce5240cd3350 100644
--- a/dev-python/netcdf4/netcdf4-1.7.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/netcdf4/netcdf4-1.7.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ HOMEPAGE="
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-IUSE="test"
+IUSE="blosc bzip2 mpi test szip zstd"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
 DEPEND="
 	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	sci-libs/hdf5:=
-	sci-libs/netcdf:=[hdf5]
+	sci-libs/netcdf:=[blosc(-)=,bzip2(-)=,hdf5,mpi=,szip=,zstd(-)=]
 "
 RDEPEND="
 	${DEPEND}
@@ -50,6 +50,5 @@ python_test() {
 
 pkg_postinst() {
 	optfeature "HDF4 support" sci-libs/hdf "sci-libs/netcdf[hdf]"
-	optfeature "MPI parallel IO support" "sci-libs/hdf5[mpi]" "sci-libs/netcdf[mpi]"
 	optfeature "OPeNDAP support" net-misc/curl "sci-libs/netcdf[dap]"
 }