diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-40.0.1-r1.ebuild b/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-40.0.1-r1.ebuild
index 623e5208e250e..5ad49d3f30c66 100644
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-40.0.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-40.0.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ DEPEND="
 	media-libs/libcanberra[gtk3]
 	>=app-misc/geoclue-2.3.1:2.0
 	>=x11-libs/libnotify-0.7.3
-	>=media-sound/pulseaudio-2[glib]
+	>=media-sound/pulseaudio-12.99.3[glib]
 	>=sys-auth/polkit-0.114
 	>=sys-power/upower-0.99.8:=
 	x11-libs/libX11
diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-41.0.ebuild b/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-41.0.ebuild
index 56a0557863911..2ffa475d7538e 100644
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-41.0.ebuild
+++ b/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-41.0.ebuild
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ DEPEND="
 	media-libs/libcanberra[gtk3]
 	>=app-misc/geoclue-2.3.1:2.0
 	>=x11-libs/libnotify-0.7.3
-	>=media-sound/pulseaudio-2[glib]
+	>=media-sound/pulseaudio-12.99.3[glib]
 	>=sys-auth/polkit-0.114
 	>=sys-power/upower-0.99.8:=
 	x11-libs/libX11