diff --git a/dev-python/tagpy/tagpy-2018.1-r3.ebuild b/dev-python/tagpy/tagpy-2018.1-r3.ebuild
index a1638af66a3da..b01f23acdfa4d 100644
--- a/dev-python/tagpy/tagpy-2018.1-r3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/tagpy/tagpy-2018.1-r3.ebuild
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ppc64 ~sparc x86"
 IUSE="examples"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-libs/boost-1.70:=[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-libs/boost:=[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=media-libs/taglib-1.8"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"