diff --git a/lang/perl-html-parser/Makefile b/lang/perl-html-parser/Makefile
index 1a3259c93..bd8e35607 100644
--- a/lang/perl-html-parser/Makefile
+++ b/lang/perl-html-parser/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SECTION:=lang
 CATEGORY:=Languages
 TITLE:=A collection of modules that parse HTML text documents
 URL:=http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Parser/
-DEPENDS:=perl perl-html-tagset perl-uri
+DEPENDS:=perl +perl-html-tagset +perl-uri
 endef
 
 define Build/Configure
diff --git a/lang/perl-html-tree/Makefile b/lang/perl-html-tree/Makefile
index bacc6515a..0e3a5c785 100644
--- a/lang/perl-html-tree/Makefile
+++ b/lang/perl-html-tree/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SECTION:=lang
 CATEGORY:=Languages
 TITLE:=represent and create HTML syntax trees
 URL:=http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/HTML-Tree/
-DEPENDS:=perl perl-html-parser perl-html-tagset
+DEPENDS:=perl +perl-html-parser +perl-html-tagset
 endef
 
 define Build/Configure
diff --git a/lang/perl-www-curl/Makefile b/lang/perl-www-curl/Makefile
index d71f3b594..941b70c42 100644
--- a/lang/perl-www-curl/Makefile
+++ b/lang/perl-www-curl/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SECTION:=lang
 CATEGORY:=Languages
 TITLE:=Perl bindings to libcurl
 URL:=http://search.cpan.org/~crisb/WWW-Curl-3.02/
-DEPENDS:=libcurl perl
+DEPENDS:=perl +libcurl
 endef
 
 define Build/Configure
diff --git a/lang/perl-www/Makefile b/lang/perl-www/Makefile
index a69e9b719..ca8b4316c 100644
--- a/lang/perl-www/Makefile
+++ b/lang/perl-www/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SECTION:=lang
 CATEGORY:=Languages
 TITLE:=WWW client/server library for Perl (aka LWP)
 URL:=http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/
-DEPENDS:=perl perl-html-parser perl-uri
+DEPENDS:=perl +perl-html-parser +perl-uri
 endef
 
 define Build/Configure
diff --git a/lang/perl/perlbase.mk b/lang/perl/perlbase.mk
index d9aa6783c..14242fef6 100644
--- a/lang/perl/perlbase.mk
+++ b/lang/perl/perlbase.mk
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ $(eval $(call BuildPackage,perlbase-flush))
 define Package/perlbase-gdbm-file
 $(call Package/perlbase-template)
 TITLE:=GDBM_File perl module
-DEPENDS+=libgdbm
+DEPENDS+= +libgdbm
 endef
 
 define Package/perlbase-gdbm-file/install