diff --git a/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.5.2.ebuild b/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.5.2.ebuild
index 8de609b041408..dde05ed0e8f3d 100644
--- a/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.5.2.ebuild
+++ b/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.5.2.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ REQUIRED_USE="dbus? ( gui )
 	|| ( gui webui )"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/boost:=
 	>=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.1:=
 	dev-qt/qtcore:5
 	dev-qt/qtnetwork:5[ssl]
@@ -39,7 +38,9 @@ RDEPEND="
 		dev-qt/qtsvg:5
 		dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
 	)"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	dev-libs/boost"
 BDEPEND="dev-qt/linguist-tools:5
 	virtual/pkgconfig"
 
diff --git a/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-9999.ebuild b/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-9999.ebuild
index 42048dfcddbed..eeba63e2c817a 100644
--- a/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-9999.ebuild
+++ b/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-9999.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 REQUIRED_USE="|| ( gui webui )"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/boost:=
 	>=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.1:=
 	>=net-libs/libtorrent-rasterbar-1.2.18:=
 	>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.11
@@ -49,7 +48,9 @@ RDEPEND="
 		dev-qt/qtsql:5[sqlite]
 		dev-qt/qtxml:5
 	)"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	dev-libs/boost
 	test? (
 		!qt6? ( dev-qt/qttest:5 )
 		qt6? ( dev-qt/qtbase:6[test] )