--- pykde-3.5.5-r1.ebuild	2006-11-16 03:10:57.000000000 +0100
+++ pykde-3.5.5-r1.ebuild	2006-11-22 14:16:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 	kde-meta_src_unpack
 	cd ${S}/python/pykde
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}/configure.py.diff"
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}/pykde-3.5.5-python-2.5-compat.diff"
+	has_version ">=dev-lang/python-2.5" && epatch "${FILESDIR}/pykde-3.5.5-python-2.5-compat.diff"
 }
 
 src_compile() {