diff --git a/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3.ebuild b/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3.ebuild
index 849f0bc754cfd..0ba96d0d749cb 100644
--- a/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	sys-libs/zlib
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	>=dev-libs/boost-1.46
+	dev-libs/boost
 	sys-devel/libtool
 "