diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild
index 72c5f07d5b57d..151504aadffbd 100644
--- a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild
@@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ RDEPEND="
 	schroedinger? ( >=media-libs/schroedinger-1.0.11-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl2[sound,video,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	sofalizer? (
-		>=sci-libs/netcdf-4.3.2-r1[hdf5,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-		>=sci-libs/hdf5-1.8.18[hl,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+		>=sci-libs/netcdf-4.3.2-r1[hdf5]
+		>=sci-libs/hdf5-1.8.18[hl]
 	)
 	speex? ( >=media-libs/speex-1.2_rc1-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	ssh? ( >=net-libs/libssh-0.5.5[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ multilib_src_configure() {
 
 	# (temporarily) disable non-multilib deps
 	if ! multilib_is_native_abi; then
-		for i in frei0r ; do
+		for i in frei0r netcdf ; do
 			myconf+=( --disable-${i} )
 		done
 	fi