diff --git a/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.2.ebuild
index d4e3e1c297c4f..6c6e885b3ee90 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ REQUIRED_USE+=" ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
 
 RUBY_S="${MY_P}"
 
-RDEPEND+=" dev-python/pygments[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+RDEPEND+="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	dev-python/pygments[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/simplejson[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND+=" test? ( ${RDEPEND} )"
 
diff --git a/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.3.ebuild b/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.3.ebuild
index 2b5ee24c2c2de..2ecca4f7bb9e6 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/pygments_rb/pygments_rb-0.6.3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ REQUIRED_USE+=" ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
 
 RUBY_S="${MY_P}"
 
-RDEPEND+=" dev-python/pygments[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+RDEPEND+="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	dev-python/pygments[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/simplejson[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND+=" test? ( ${RDEPEND} )"