diff --git a/sci-libs/votca-tools/votca-tools-1.2.4.ebuild b/sci-libs/votca-tools/votca-tools-1.2.4.ebuild
index beca8a446bcb5..a9f6184c6144f 100644
--- a/sci-libs/votca-tools/votca-tools-1.2.4.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/votca-tools/votca-tools-1.2.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ RDEPEND="fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0 )
 	sqlite? ( dev-db/sqlite:3 )"
 
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	doc? ( || ( <app-doc/doxygen-1.7.6.1[-nodot] >=app-doc/doxygen-1.7.6.1[dot] ) )
+	doc? ( >=app-doc/doxygen-1.7.6.1[dot] )
 	>=app-text/txt2tags-2.5
 	virtual/pkgconfig"