--- app-text/aspell/aspell-0.60.5.ebuild
+++ app-text/aspell/aspell-0.60.5.ebuild
@@ -17,6 +17,24 @@
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~ppc ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
 IUSE="gpm nls"
 
+# Build PDEPEND from list of language codes provided in the tree.
+# The PDEPEND string is static - this code just makes it easier to maintain.
+def="app-dicts/aspell-en"
+for l in \
+	"af" "be" "bg" "br" "ca" "cs" "cy" "da" "de" "el" \
+	"en" "eo" "es" "et" "fi" "fo" "fr" "ga" "gl" "he" \
+	"hr" "is" "it" "nl" "no" "pl" "pt" "ro" "ru" "sk" \
+	"sl" "sr" "sv" "uk" "vi"; do
+	dep="linguas_${l}? ( app-dicts/aspell-${l} )"
+	[[ -z ${PDEPEND} ]] &&
+		PDEPEND="${dep}" ||
+		PDEPEND="${PDEPEND}
+${dep}"
+	def="!linguas_${l}? ( ${def} )"
+done
+PDEPEND="${PDEPEND}
+${def}"
+
 RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2
 	gpm? ( sys-libs/gpm )
 	nls? ( virtual/libintl )"