diff --git a/games-board/goatee-gtk/goatee-gtk-0.3.1.1.ebuild b/games-board/goatee-gtk/goatee-gtk-0.3.1.1.ebuild
index 76298b439607e..4667955a5dfea 100644
--- a/games-board/goatee-gtk/goatee-gtk-0.3.1.1.ebuild
+++ b/games-board/goatee-gtk/goatee-gtk-0.3.1.1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -30,3 +30,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	>=dev-haskell/cabal-1.8
 	test? ( >=dev-haskell/hunit-1.2 <dev-haskell/hunit-1.4 )
 "
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	cabal_chdeps \
+		'directory >= 1.1 && < 1.3' 'directory >= 1.1'
+}