diff --git a/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-0.8.10.ebuild b/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-0.8.10.ebuild
index ef98452440a90..9bea75ef7103a 100644
--- a/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-0.8.10.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-0.8.10.ebuild
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux"
 IUSE="kernel_linux ncurses static"
 
-LIB_DEPEND="dev-libs/popt[static-libs(+)]
-	ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r7[static-libs(+)] )
+LIB_DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/popt[static-libs(+)]
+	ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r7:5=[static-libs(+)] )
 	kernel_linux? ( sys-apps/util-linux[static-libs(+)] )" # libuuid
 RDEPEND="!static? ( ${LIB_DEPEND//\[static-libs(+)]} )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
diff --git a/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-1.0.0.ebuild b/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-1.0.0.ebuild
index f96d989e8ea59..9a0e6abb20b9b 100644
--- a/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-1.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-1.0.0.ebuild
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux"
 IUSE="kernel_linux ncurses static"
 
-LIB_DEPEND="dev-libs/popt[static-libs(+)]
-	ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r7[static-libs(+)] )
+LIB_DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/popt[static-libs(+)]
+	ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r7:5=[static-libs(+)] )
 	kernel_linux? ( sys-apps/util-linux[static-libs(+)] )" # libuuid
 RDEPEND="!static? ( ${LIB_DEPEND//\[static-libs(+)]} )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}