diff --git a/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-1.2.16.ebuild b/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-1.2.16.ebuild
index 8bce1cc74d0e9..6c9200ecdceb7 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-1.2.16.ebuild
+++ b/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-1.2.16.ebuild
@@ -14,12 +14,10 @@ SRC_URI="https://www.cacti.net/downloads/spine/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 sparc x86"
-IUSE="libressl"
 
 BDEPEND="sys-apps/help2man"
 DEPEND="
-	!libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
-	libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl:0= )
+	dev-libs/openssl:0=
 	net-analyzer/net-snmp:=
 	dev-db/mysql-connector-c:0=
 "
diff --git a/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-99999.ebuild b/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-99999.ebuild
index 1367debdc14e8..d929a4df7fcbc 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-99999.ebuild
+++ b/net-analyzer/cacti-spine/cacti-spine-99999.ebuild
@@ -14,12 +14,10 @@ EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/Cacti/spine"
 LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS=""
-IUSE="libressl"
 
 BDEPEND="sys-apps/help2man"
 DEPEND="
-	!libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
-	libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl:0= )
+	dev-libs/openssl:0=
 	net-analyzer/net-snmp:=
 	dev-db/mysql-connector-c:0=
 "