diff --git a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.0.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.0.0-r1.ebuild
index c0d2cee650421..1ceb3beaf678f 100644
--- a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.0.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.0.0-r1.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
 # $Id$
 
@@ -12,5 +12,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="A Twisted DNS implementation"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86 ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~ia64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE=""
 
-DEPEND="=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="
+	!dev-python/twisted
+	=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.2.0.ebuild b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.2.0.ebuild
index c0d2cee650421..1ceb3beaf678f 100644
--- a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-13.2.0.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
 # $Id$
 
@@ -12,5 +12,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="A Twisted DNS implementation"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86 ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~ia64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE=""
 
-DEPEND="=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="
+	!dev-python/twisted
+	=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.1.0.ebuild b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.1.0.ebuild
index df8da10295d2b..a470c24ac2f1e 100644
--- a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.1.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.1.0.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
 # $Id$
 
@@ -12,5 +12,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="A Twisted DNS implementation"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~x86 ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~ia64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE=""
 
-DEPEND="=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="
+	!dev-python/twisted
+	=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.2.1.ebuild b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.2.1.ebuild
index c95d5f1704191..78a5c54c941ab 100644
--- a/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.2.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/twisted-names/twisted-names-15.2.1.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
 # $Id$
 
@@ -12,5 +12,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="A Twisted DNS implementation"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~x86 ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~ia64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE=""
 
-DEPEND="=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="
+	!dev-python/twisted
+	=dev-python/twisted-core-${TWISTED_RELEASE}*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"