diff --git a/dev-R/BH/BH-1.75.0.0.ebuild b/dev-R/BH/BH-1.75.0.0.ebuild
index a0bd9eca2f..d7175846d2 100644
--- a/dev-R/BH/BH-1.75.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-R/BH/BH-1.75.0.0.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE='Boost-1.0'
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-DEPEND=">=dev-libs/boost-${PV}"
+DEPEND=">=dev-libs/boost-$(ver_cut 1-3)"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 src_prepare() {
diff --git a/dev-R/BH/BH-1.78.0.0.ebuild b/dev-R/BH/BH-1.78.0.0.ebuild
index b8ff0493a5..92f06d6622 100644
--- a/dev-R/BH/BH-1.78.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-R/BH/BH-1.78.0.0.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE='Boost-1.0'
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-DEPEND=">=dev-libs/boost-${PV}"
+DEPEND=">=dev-libs/boost-$(ver_cut 1-3)"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 src_prepare() {