diff --git a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
index 2330efc..4b35bc1 100644
--- a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
+++ b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ LICENSE="BSD-3 ISC public-domain"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
-DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:="
+DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses-compat"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"