diff --git a/dev-python/sphinx-gallery/sphinx-gallery-0.1.12.ebuild b/dev-python/sphinx-gallery/sphinx-gallery-0.1.12.ebuild
index c4a8581f41cd7..7ae476a02cc17 100644
--- a/dev-python/sphinx-gallery/sphinx-gallery-0.1.12.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/sphinx-gallery/sphinx-gallery-0.1.12.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
 IUSE=""
 
 RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/matplotlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+PDEPEND="dev-python/matplotlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 
 # tests need extra files not distributed