diff --git a/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-5.0.0.ebuild b/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-5.0.0.ebuild
index 09e0597e63876..6ce8521b0feff 100644
--- a/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-5.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-5.0.0.ebuild
@@ -14,30 +14,12 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="doc"
 
 RDEPEND="<dev-python/six-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 BDEPEND="
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	doc? (
-		$(python_gen_any_dep '
-			dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-			dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		')
-	)
 "
 
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs \
+	dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme
 distutils_enable_tests unittest
-
-python_check_deps() {
-	use doc || return 0
-	has_version "dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" &&
-		has_version "dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-}
-
-python_compile_all() {
-	if use doc; then
-		sphinx-build docs docs/_build/html || die
-		HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-7.0.0.ebuild b/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-7.0.0.ebuild
index dee2705781ee0..c0fc2414cc48a 100644
--- a/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-7.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/more-itertools/more-itertools-7.0.0.ebuild
@@ -14,29 +14,11 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="doc"
 
 BDEPEND="
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	doc? (
-		$(python_gen_any_dep '
-			dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-			dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		')
-	)
 "
 
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs \
+	dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme
 distutils_enable_tests unittest
-
-python_check_deps() {
-	use doc || return 0
-	has_version "dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" &&
-		has_version "dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-}
-
-python_compile_all() {
-	if use doc; then
-		sphinx-build docs docs/_build/html || die
-		HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
-	fi
-}