diff --git a/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-0.1.12-r1.ebuild b/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-0.1.12-r1.ebuild
index e5b659b3517e0..e5dff9289053f 100644
--- a/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-0.1.12-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-0.1.12-r1.ebuild
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 RDEPEND="
 	app-text/liblangtag
 	dev-libs/librevenge
-	dev-libs/libxml2
+	dev-libs/libxml2:=
 	>=dev-util/mdds-2.1:1=
 	sys-libs/zlib
 "
diff --git a/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-9999.ebuild b/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-9999.ebuild
index 975c7f6efb90f..071a12e516e6b 100644
--- a/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/libetonyek/libetonyek-9999.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 RDEPEND="
 	app-text/liblangtag
 	dev-libs/librevenge
-	dev-libs/libxml2
+	dev-libs/libxml2:=
 	dev-util/mdds:1/${MDDS_VER}
 	sys-libs/zlib
 "