diff --git a/dev-python/pymemcache/pymemcache-4.0.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pymemcache/pymemcache-4.0.0.ebuild
index c0b9d34de5..ab8dc24d41 100644
--- a/dev-python/pymemcache/pymemcache-4.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pymemcache/pymemcache-4.0.0.ebuild
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
 BDEPEND="
 	test? (
+		${DATABASES_DEPEND[memcached]}
 		dev-python/Faker[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/zstd[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		$(ememcached --get-depend)
 	)
 "