diff --git a/media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.2.16.ebuild b/media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.2.16.ebuild
index d62b00ce8541d..e7340ec9f9c43 100644
--- a/media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.2.16.ebuild
+++ b/media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.2.16.ebuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ DEPEND="
 RDEPEND="
 	${DEPEND}
 	thirdparty? ( dev-python/requests )
-	media-sound/mpd
+	media-sound/mpd[curl]
 "
 
 pkg_setup() {