diff --git a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
index 65f66b0..dfdf941 100644
--- a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
+++ b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
 IUSE="ncurses"
 
-DEPEND="ncurses? ( sys-libs/ncurses )"
+DEPEND="ncurses? ( sys-libs/ncurses:0= )"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 src_configure() {
-	local myeconfargs=(
-		$(use_enable ncurses curses)
-	)
+	local myeconfargs=()
+
+	use ncurses || myeconfargs+=(--disable-curses)
 
 	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
 }