diff --git a/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22.ebuild b/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22.ebuild
index d90893fb69850..f69dd24eb0148 100644
--- a/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22.ebuild
+++ b/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22.ebuild
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ IUSE="
 "
 
 RDEPEND="
-	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r6:5=
+	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r6:=
 	kernel_Darwin? ( dev-perl/Mac-Pasteboard )
 	media-libs/fontconfig
 	perl? ( dev-lang/perl:= )