diff --git a/dev-python/eventlet/eventlet-0.30.2.ebuild b/dev-python/eventlet/eventlet-0.30.2.ebuild
index 24bc5ac1c1b8b..e34678ddab00c 100644
--- a/dev-python/eventlet/eventlet-0.30.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/eventlet/eventlet-0.30.2.ebuild
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ IUSE="doc examples"
 RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/dnspython-1.15.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	<dev-python/dnspython-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/greenlet-0.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/monotonic-1.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/six-1.10.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	virtual/python-greenlet[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 BDEPEND="
 	doc? ( >=dev-python/python-docs-2.7.6-r1:2.7 )