diff --git a/books/mason-book/Makefile b/books/mason-book/Makefile
index 0771aa850d8..c7a1bbfe1ab 100644
--- a/books/mason-book/Makefile
+++ b/books/mason-book/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.6 2010/07/24 06:29:07 ajacoutot Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.7 2010/11/15 12:47:38 espie Exp $
 
 COMMENT=	book on embedding Perl in HTML with Mason
 CATEGORIES=	books 
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ MAINTAINER=	Anil Madhavapeddy <avsm@openbsd.org>
 
 MASTER_SITES=	${HOMEPAGE}book/
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	::www/p5-HTML-Parser \
-		::graphics/p5-Image-Size \
-		::www/p5-URI
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	www/p5-HTML-Parser \
+		graphics/p5-Image-Size \
+		www/p5-URI
 
 # Open Publication License
 PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM=	Yes
diff --git a/books/svnbook/Makefile b/books/svnbook/Makefile
index 0d977cdd1db..5f2d58d3950 100644
--- a/books/svnbook/Makefile
+++ b/books/svnbook/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2010/07/24 06:29:07 ajacoutot Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.5 2010/11/15 12:47:38 espie Exp $
 
 COMMENT=		Version Control with Subversion
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ MASTER_SITES=		${HOMEPAGE}/en/$V/
 EXTRACT_SUFX=		.tar.bz2
 
 EXTRACT_ONLY=	
-BUILD_DEPENDS=		:bzip2-*:archivers/bzip2
+BUILD_DEPENDS=		archivers/bzip2
 
 NO_BUILD=		Yes
 NO_REGRESS=		Yes