diff --git a/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.9.0.ebuild b/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.9.0.ebuild
index bb04a6a993..11a247957d 100644
--- a/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.9.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.9.0.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
-RDEPEND="dev-libs/librdkafka"
+RDEPEND="~dev-libs/librdkafka-1.9.0"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	test? (