diff --git a/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.1-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.1-r2.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.1-r1.ebuild
rename to dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.1-r2.ebuild
index 00d58d6385509..8b6705313d6dc 100644
--- a/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.1-r2.ebuild
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/google-auth-1.25.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/requests-2.18.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	<dev-python/requests-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!dev-python/namespace-google
 "
 # grpcio support is broken if grpcio-status is not installed,
 # and we do not package the latter
diff --git a/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.2.ebuild b/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.2-r1.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.2.ebuild
rename to dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.2-r1.ebuild
index 687af3f4c9c48..a009e19f6f231 100644
--- a/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.7.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/google-auth-1.25.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/requests-2.18.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	<dev-python/requests-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!dev-python/namespace-google
 "
 BDEPEND="
 	test? (