diff --git a/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.20-r1.ebuild b/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.20-r1.ebuild
index ec52f6640695d..248abe46da5e7 100644
--- a/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.20-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.20-r1.ebuild
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv s390 sp
 IUSE="bzip2 doc ldap nls readline selinux +smartcard ssl tofu tools usb user-socket wks-server"
 
 # Existence of executables is checked during configuration.
-DEPEND="!app-crypt/dirmngr
-	>=dev-libs/libassuan-2.5.0
+DEPEND=">=dev-libs/libassuan-2.5.0
 	>=dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.7.3
 	>=dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.28
 	>=dev-libs/libksba-1.3.4
diff --git a/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.21.ebuild b/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.21.ebuild
index 69c3b392a833a..e41bbd9415135 100644
--- a/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.21.ebuild
+++ b/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.21.ebuild
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~
 IUSE="bzip2 doc ldap nls readline selinux +smartcard ssl tofu tools usb user-socket wks-server"
 
 # Existence of executables is checked during configuration.
-DEPEND="!app-crypt/dirmngr
-	>=dev-libs/libassuan-2.5.0
+DEPEND=">=dev-libs/libassuan-2.5.0
 	>=dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.7.3
 	>=dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.28
 	>=dev-libs/libksba-1.3.4
diff --git a/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.22.ebuild b/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.22.ebuild
index 04e7c40e9b798..71679032de617 100644
--- a/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.22.ebuild
+++ b/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.22.ebuild
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~
 IUSE="bzip2 doc ldap nls readline selinux +smartcard ssl tofu tools usb user-socket wks-server"
 
 # Existence of executables is checked during configuration.
-DEPEND="!app-crypt/dirmngr
-	>=dev-libs/libassuan-2.5.0
+DEPEND=">=dev-libs/libassuan-2.5.0
 	>=dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.7.3
 	>=dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.29
 	>=dev-libs/libksba-1.3.4