diff --git a/virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.220.0-r1.ebuild b/virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.220.0-r1.ebuild
index 7a639235aaa39..4eda716a32d0d 100644
--- a/virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.220.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.220.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	|| ( =dev-lang/perl-5.44.0_rc1 ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
+	|| ( ~dev-lang/perl-5.44.0_rc1 ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
 	dev-lang/perl:=
 	!<perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}
 	!>perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}-r999