diff --git a/app-editors/xmlcopyeditor/xmlcopyeditor-1.3.1.0-r3.ebuild b/app-editors/xmlcopyeditor/xmlcopyeditor-1.3.1.0-r3.ebuild
index 4967e5f56a6b8..176471bb8f29c 100644
--- a/app-editors/xmlcopyeditor/xmlcopyeditor-1.3.1.0-r3.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/xmlcopyeditor/xmlcopyeditor-1.3.1.0-r3.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ IUSE="aqua nls"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	app-text/enchant:2
-	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.12.5
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.12.5:=
 	dev-libs/libxslt
 	dev-libs/xerces-c:=[cpu_flags_x86_sse2,icu]
 	dev-libs/libpcre2