diff --git a/app-misc/dbf/dbf-0.9.0.ebuild b/app-misc/dbf/dbf-0.9.0.ebuild
index 924daba241..f25c2a1b97 100644
--- a/app-misc/dbf/dbf-0.9.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-misc/dbf/dbf-0.9.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: $
 
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 IUSE="doc"
 
+RDEPEND="dev-libs/libdbf"
+
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	dev-perl/XML-Parser
-	dev-libs/libdbf
 	doc? ( app-text/docbook-sgml-utils )
 	virtual/pkgconfig"