--- sys-apps/file/file-5.03.ebuild
+++ sys-apps/file/file-5.03.ebuild
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/file/file-5.03.ebuild,v 1.1 2009/05/06 23:36:03 vapier Exp $
 
+DISTUTILS_DISABLE_PYTHON_DEPENDENCY="1"
+
 inherit eutils distutils libtool flag-o-matic
 
 DESCRIPTION="identify a file's format by scanning binary data for patterns"
@@ -14,6 +16,9 @@
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~sparc-fbsd ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
 IUSE="python"
 
+DEPEND="python? ( virtual/python )"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
 src_unpack() {
 	unpack ${P}.tar.gz
 	cd "${S}"