diff --git a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.2-r3.ebuild b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.2-r3.ebuild
index adaf85cd6a08d..df7e39ca9ef50 100644
--- a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.2-r3.ebuild
+++ b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.2-r3.ebuild
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ src_install() {
 	fi
 
 	# This directory contains SVG images which we don't want to compress
-	use doc && touch "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc/images.ecompress.skip
+	use doc && docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {
diff --git a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r100.ebuild b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r100.ebuild
index b0898a645c680..471eeb9a939ed 100644
--- a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r100.ebuild
+++ b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r100.ebuild
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ src_install() {
 	fi
 
 	# This directory contains SVG images which we don't want to compress
-	use doc && touch "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc/images.ecompress.skip
+	use doc && docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {
diff --git a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r2.ebuild b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r2.ebuild
index e1fb5c5c45401..6ca406671054d 100644
--- a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r2.ebuild
+++ b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-4.3-r2.ebuild
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ src_install() {
 	fi
 
 	# This directory contains SVG images which we don't want to compress
-	use doc && touch "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc/images.ecompress.skip
+	use doc && docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {
diff --git a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-9999.ebuild b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-9999.ebuild
index 9c4176a67a088..084636a02de2d 100644
--- a/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-9999.ebuild
+++ b/x11-wm/awesome/awesome-9999.ebuild
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ src_install() {
 	fi
 
 	# This directory contains SVG images which we don't want to compress
-	use doc && touch "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc/images.ecompress.skip
+	use doc && docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/doc
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {