diff --git a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9-r99.ebuild b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9-r99.ebuild
index 49dd18fd71b483..d8a8266db3fbaa 100644
--- a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9-r99.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9-r99.ebuild
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ SLOT="5/5"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 ~sh sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
 IUSE="ada +cxx gpm static-libs tinfo unicode"
 
-RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:0/5[ada?,cxx?,gpm?,static-libs?,tinfo?,unicode?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:0/5[ada?,cxx?,gpm?,static-libs?,tinfo?,unicode?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0.ebuild b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0.ebuild
index 3a9d218774c514..3b85135b997b13 100644
--- a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0.ebuild
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ SLOT="5/6"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
 IUSE="ada +cxx gpm static-libs tinfo unicode"
 
-RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:0/6[ada?,cxx?,gpm?,static-libs?,tinfo?,unicode?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:0/6[ada?,cxx?,gpm?,static-libs?,tinfo?,unicode?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"