diff --git a/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen-0.2.17.0.1.ebuild b/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen-0.2.17.0.1.ebuild
index 4a00cf0af3..08436d0db8 100644
--- a/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen-0.2.17.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen-0.2.17.0.1.ebuild
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-MYPV="$(ver_cut 2-4 ${PV})"
-
-inherit R-packages
+inherit R-packages eapi8-dosym
 
+MY_PV="$(ver_cut 2-4 ${PV})"
 DESCRIPTION='Header-Only C++ Mathematical Optimization library for armadillo'
 #SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen_${PV}.tar.gz"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
@@ -15,26 +14,27 @@ LICENSE='GPL-2+'
 DEPEND="
 	>=dev-lang/R-3.3.0
 	dev-R/Rcpp
-	=sci-libs/ensmallen-${MYPV}*
+	=sci-libs/ensmallen-${MY_PV}*
 "
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	dev-R/Rcpp
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
 	>=dev-R/RcppArmadillo-0.8.400.0.0
 "
 
 src_prepare() {
 	default
-	#remove bundled
+
+	# remove bundled
 	rm -r inst/include/ensmallen_bits || die
 	rm inst/include/ensmallen.hpp || die
-	#link to sci-libs/ensmallen
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen_bits inst/include/ensmallen_bits
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen.hpp inst/include/ensmallen.hpp
+
+	# link to sci-libs/ensmallen
+	ln -s "${ESYSROOT}"/usr/include/ensmallen_bits inst/include/ensmallen_bits || die
+	ln -s "${ESYSROOT}"/usr/include/ensmallen.hpp inst/include/ensmallen.hpp || die
 }
 
 src_install() {
 	R-packages_src_install
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen_bits "/usr/$(get_libdir)/R/site-library/${PN}/include/ensmallen_bits"
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen.hpp "/usr/$(get_libdir)/R/site-library/${PN}/include/ensmallen.hpp"
+
+	dosym8 -r /usr/include/ensmallen_bits "/usr/$(get_libdir)/R/site-library/${PN}/include/ensmallen_bits"
+	dosym8 -r /usr/include/ensmallen.hpp "/usr/$(get_libdir)/R/site-library/${PN}/include/ensmallen.hpp"
 }