--- /usr/portage/x11-misc/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-5.22.ebuild
+++ /usr/local/portage/x11-misc/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-5.22.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 LICENSE="BSD"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~sh sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd ~x86-freebsd ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="gdm jpeg new-login opengl pam +perl selinux suid xinerama"
+IUSE="gdm jpeg new-login nls opengl pam +perl selinux suid xinerama"
 
 COMMON_DEPEND="dev-libs/libxml2
 	>=gnome-base/libglade-2
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 	dev-util/intltool
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	sys-devel/bc
-	sys-devel/gettext
+	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
 	x11-proto/recordproto
 	x11-proto/scrnsaverproto
 	x11-proto/xextproto
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@
 		--without-kerberos \
 		--x-includes="${EPREFIX}"/usr/include \
 		--x-libraries="${EPREFIX}"/usr/$(get_libdir)
+
+	if ! use nls; then
+		sed -i -e 's/#define ENABLE_NLS 1/#undef ENABLE_NLS/' ${S}/config.h || die 'NLS disable failed'
+	fi
 }
 
 src_install() {