diff --git a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.28.ebuild b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.28.ebuild
index 7137235ccf338..5c5c56579d80e 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.28.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.28.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LIBNL_P=${P/_/-}
 LIBNL_DIR=${PV/_/}
 LIBNL_DIR=${LIBNL_DIR//./_}
 
-DESCRIPTION="A collection of libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces"
+DESCRIPTION="Libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/ https://github.com/thom311/libnl"
 SRC_URI="
 	https://github.com/thom311/${PN}/releases/download/${PN}${LIBNL_DIR}/${P/_rc/-rc}.tar.gz
diff --git a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.9999.ebuild b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.9999.ebuild
index dd182bb7be9f5..29a9d874c38f3 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-3.2.9999.ebuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5} )
 DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1
 inherit autotools distutils-r1 eutils git-r3 libtool multilib multilib-minimal
 
-DESCRIPTION="A collection of libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces"
+DESCRIPTION="Libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/ https://github.com/thom311/libnl"
 EGIT_REPO_URI="
 	https://github.com/thom311/libnl.git