diff --git a/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r1.ebuild b/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r1.ebuild
index 5af4bb8a570d6..26ec444b64fbf 100644
--- a/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86
 IUSE="emacs"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2:0=
-	emacs? ( virtual/emacs )"
+	emacs? ( >=app-editors/emacs-23.1:* )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	sys-devel/flex
 	virtual/pkgconfig
diff --git a/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r2.ebuild b/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r2.ebuild
index 8a7367f848485..fa8fde9d60dfa 100644
--- a/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.8a-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~s
 IUSE="emacs"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2:0=
-	emacs? ( virtual/emacs )"
+	emacs? ( >=app-editors/emacs-23.1:* )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	sys-devel/flex
 	virtual/pkgconfig
diff --git a/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.9.ebuild b/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.9.ebuild
index 43bbd64bf2f29..02daf13636de5 100644
--- a/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.9.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/cscope/cscope-15.9.ebuild
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~
 IUSE="emacs"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2:0=
-	emacs? ( virtual/emacs )"
+	emacs? ( >=app-editors/emacs-23.1:* )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="sys-devel/flex
 	virtual/pkgconfig