diff --git a/dev-python/cairocffi/cairocffi-0.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/cairocffi/cairocffi-0.8.0.ebuild
index 00e16dec75304..ca859c64d9645 100644
--- a/dev-python/cairocffi/cairocffi-0.8.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/cairocffi/cairocffi-0.8.0.ebuild
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ IUSE="doc test"
 RDEPEND="
 	$(python_gen_cond_dep '>=dev-python/cffi-1.1.0:=[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' 'python*')
 	>=dev-python/xcffib-0.3.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	x11-libs/cairo:0=
+	x11-libs/cairo:0=[xcb]
 	x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf[jpeg]
 	$(python_gen_cond_dep '>=virtual/pypy-2.6.0' pypy )"