diff --git a/app-editors/uemacs-pk/uemacs-pk-4.0.15_p20141208.ebuild b/app-editors/uemacs-pk/uemacs-pk-4.0.15_p20141208.ebuild
index c3b07b67089e1..d08f6e28e8671 100644
--- a/app-editors/uemacs-pk/uemacs-pk-4.0.15_p20141208.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/uemacs-pk/uemacs-pk-4.0.15_p20141208.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ LICENSE="free-noncomm"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 x86 ~x86-fbsd"
 
-RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses"
+RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:0"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	virtual/pkgconfig"