diff --git a/dev-db/metakit/metakit-2.4.9.7-r2.ebuild b/dev-db/metakit/metakit-2.4.9.7-r2.ebuild
index 6a3521056a483..6f734ed0c15cf 100644
--- a/dev-db/metakit/metakit-2.4.9.7-r2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/metakit/metakit-2.4.9.7-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ IUSE="python static tcl"
 
 DEPEND="
 	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
-	tcl? ( dev-lang/tcl:0= )"
+	tcl? ( >=dev-lang/tcl-8.6:0= )"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"