diff --git a/games-mud/tf/tf-50_beta8-r1.ebuild b/games-mud/tf/tf-50_beta8-r1.ebuild
index 6395f602183c8..4c07e6c2d2598 100644
--- a/games-mud/tf/tf-50_beta8-r1.ebuild
+++ b/games-mud/tf/tf-50_beta8-r1.ebuild
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 ~ppc ~sparc x86"
 IUSE="+atcp debug doc +gmcp ipv6 +option102 ssl"
 
-RDEPEND="ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl )
+RDEPEND="ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
 	dev-libs/libpcre"
 DEPEND=${RDEPEND}