diff --git a/app-editors/imhex/imhex-1.8.1.ebuild b/app-editors/imhex/imhex-1.8.1.ebuild
index 8f9fd4480e..5687141618 100644
--- a/app-editors/imhex/imhex-1.8.1.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/imhex/imhex-1.8.1.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
 DEPEND="
 	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	app-forensics/yara
+	app-forensics/yara[tcmalloc]
 	dev-cpp/nlohmann_json
 	dev-cpp/xdgpp
 	dev-libs/capstone