diff --git a/dev-libs/libbson/Manifest b/dev-libs/libbson/Manifest
index 0c866cb..0efe8aa 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libbson/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/libbson/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+DIST libbson-1.30.6-docs.tar.xz 40372 BLAKE2B d1e04239bb2ff123b72060fb51892b5354908f7d452789f8bed269ca3d9f417758b6a2c7f993b631fe08162cbc679c34551f53ccb767e0d180fc5f46926e3029 SHA512 00fd68b4549f1fb20ee4828e42fbcf620374615bff9c445af66f0417b7c49ef00451b73e1c712e23bcdc84414d41cf9a55e68c0f9c983290d2a7ed91cb283f0a
 DIST mongo-c-driver-1.30.6.tar.gz 7450898 BLAKE2B 242b41fed6b6155a35cb8dc696bc3d246795aa6df77c1eb2eb58c16fb603e4bcdf01cbdb382f68c4ede6d29186cdbfebab3fc2262b2acd9994f5f936ffc30e34 SHA512 3351fd784dcaffd5454776e8ebceae444634b525aee63ff1dc45a9f3a0ab5d0716b990bb0a0960553f76e64ac99b18a1f88bec6225f5c000aee48688b9d6d318
 DIST mongo-c-driver-1.30.6.tar.gz.asc 833 BLAKE2B 2be5cf50f50191a74213ae7400793a1b4142f34b4ef589eff90db4a00b66514142fe510e941b50a304590cdec256f6020ff1f8220c25fd6aa63444e24dd817c0 SHA512 93c82ba89d4d6741fbe3a92dc36c6fbca16c6d43e2d874261ab38736cba4d74dc6d20808aae9afe8e112a04a65ae27f301d45c9ab9d585f258e7f7fea219f1a1
diff --git a/dev-libs/libbson/libbson-1.30.6.ebuild b/dev-libs/libbson/libbson-1.30.6.ebuild
index 896b900..23d3c19 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libbson/libbson-1.30.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libbson/libbson-1.30.6.ebuild
@@ -3,18 +3,17 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
-# Generate using a slight deviation from https://github.com/thesamesam/sam-gentoo-scripts/blob/main/niche/generate-cmake-docs
+# Generate using https://github.com/thesamesam/sam-gentoo-scripts/blob/main/niche/generate-cmake-docs as a template
 # Set to 1 if prebuilt, 0 if not
 # (the construct below is to allow overriding from env for script)
-: ${LIBBSON_DOCS_PREBUILT:=0}
+: ${LIBBSON_DOCS_PREBUILT:=1}
 
 # Default to generating docs (inc. man pages) if no prebuilt; overridden later
 LIBBSON_DOCS_USEFLAG="+man"
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} pypy3_11 )
 VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/mongo-c-driver.asc
 
-inherit cmake dot-a python-any-r1 verify-sig
+inherit cmake dot-a verify-sig
 
 DESCRIPTION="Library routines related to building,parsing and iterating BSON documents"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/tree/master/src/libbson"
@@ -41,10 +40,8 @@ RESTRICT="test"
 
 BDEPEND="
 	man? (
-		$(python_gen_any_dep '
-			<=dev-python/docutils-0.22[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-			dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		')
+		<=dev-python/docutils-0.22
+		dev-python/sphinx
 	)
 	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-mongo-c-driver )
 "
@@ -53,11 +50,6 @@ PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/libbson-1.30.6-cmake4.patch
 )
 
-python_check_deps() {
-	python_has_version -b "dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-	python_has_version -b "dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-}
-
 src_prepare() {
 	cmake_src_prepare
 
@@ -87,4 +79,9 @@ src_install() {
 
 	cmake_src_install
 	strip-lto-bytecode
+
+	# If USE=man, there'll be newly generated docs which we install instead.
+	if ! use man && [[ ${LIBBSON_DOCS_PREBUILT} == 1 ]] ; then
+		doman "${WORKDIR}"/${PN}-${PV}-docs/man*/*.[0-8]
+	fi
 }