diff --git a/net-fs/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-2.5.4-r1.ebuild b/net-fs/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-2.5.4-r1.ebuild
index 414117f1f15dc..1001f59227226 100644
--- a/net-fs/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-2.5.4-r1.ebuild
+++ b/net-fs/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-2.5.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ RESTRICT="test" #315573
 # so don't depend on virtual/krb.
 # (04 Feb 2005 agriffis)
 DEPEND="
-	>=dev-db/sqlite-3.3
+	dev-db/sqlite:3
 	dev-libs/libxml2
 	net-libs/libtirpc:=
 	>=net-nds/rpcbind-0.2.4