--- /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.4.4-r8.ebuild	2008-01-07 18:40:51.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.4.4-r9.ebuild	2008-01-15 17:02:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~sparc-fbsd ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
 IUSE="ncurses gdbm ssl readline tk berkdb bootstrap ipv6 build ucs2 doc nocxx nothreads examples elibc_uclibc"
 
+# Can't be compiled against db-4.5 Bug #179377
 DEPEND=">=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.3
 	!dev-python/cjkcodecs
 	!build? (
 		tk? ( >=dev-lang/tk-8.0 )
 		ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2 readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-4.1 ) )
-		berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-3.1 )
+		berkdb? ( || ( sys-libs/db:4.4  sys-libs/db:4.3 ))
 		gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm )
 		ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl )
 		doc? ( =dev-python/python-docs-${PV}* )