diff --git a/usr/portage/app-text/txt2tags/txt2tags-2.5.ebuild b/app-text/txt2tags/txt2tags-2.5.ebuild
index 01c5c17..219ff8c 100644
--- a/usr/portage/app-text/txt2tags/txt2tags-2.5.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/txt2tags/txt2tags-2.5.ebuild
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 EAPI="2"
 PYTHON_USE_WITH="tk"
 PYTHON_USE_WITH_OPT="tk"
+PYTHON_DEPEND="2"
 
 inherit eutils elisp-common python
 
@@ -17,8 +18,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~sparc-solaris"
 IUSE="emacs tk vim-syntax"
 
-DEPEND="virtual/python
-	tk? ( dev-lang/tk )
+DEPEND="tk? ( dev-lang/tk )
 	vim-syntax? (
 		|| (
 			app-editors/vim
@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 SITEFILE="51${PN}-gentoo.el"
 
+pkg_setup() {
+	python_set_active_version 2
+	python_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	python_convert_shebangs -r 2 .
+}
+
 src_compile() {
 	if use emacs; then
 		elisp-compile extras/txt2tags-mode.el || die "elisp-compile failed"