diff --git a/dev-python/nose/nose-1.3.7.ebuild b/dev-python/nose/nose-1.3.7.ebuild
index 7e9d805022464..150fb0158a8be 100644
--- a/dev-python/nose/nose-1.3.7.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/nose/nose-1.3.7.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE="doc examples test"
 
+REQUIRED_USE="doc? ( python_targets_python2_7 )"
+
 RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/coverage[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
@@ -61,7 +63,10 @@ python_compile() {
 }
 
 python_compile_all() {
-	use doc && emake -C doc html
+	if use doc; then
+		python_export python2_7 EPYTHON
+		emake -C doc html
+	fi
 }
 
 python_test() {
@@ -77,6 +82,7 @@ python_install_all() {
 	distutils-r1_python_install_all
 
 	if use doc; then
-		dohtml -r -A txt doc/.build/html/.
+		docinto html
+		dodoc -r -A txt doc/.build/html/.
 	fi
 }