diff --git a/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p10.ebuild b/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p10.ebuild
index cf5e4f6f6fba8..74f3334133560 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p10.ebuild
+++ b/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p10.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
 IUSE="examples nagios4 perl python test"
+REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
 
 RDEPEND="!sys-apps/ucspi-unix:0
 	perl? (
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ RDEPEND="!sys-apps/ucspi-unix:0
 		>=virtual/perl-Thread-Queue-2.11:0
 		virtual/perl-Encode:0
 		dev-perl/JSON-XS:0
-	)"
+	)
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	perl? (
 		dev-perl/Module-Install:0
diff --git a/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p16.ebuild b/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p16.ebuild
index 733705041a3e2..4d0653d1def58 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p16.ebuild
+++ b/net-analyzer/mk-livestatus/mk-livestatus-1.2.8_p16.ebuild
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
 IUSE="examples nagios4 perl python test"
+REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
 
 RDEPEND="!sys-apps/ucspi-unix:0
 	perl? (
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ RDEPEND="!sys-apps/ucspi-unix:0
 		>=virtual/perl-Thread-Queue-2.11:0
 		virtual/perl-Encode:0
 		dev-perl/JSON-XS:0
-	)"
+	)
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	perl? (
 		dev-perl/Module-Install:0