diff --git a/dev-python/gnuplot-py/gnuplot-py-1.8-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/gnuplot-py/gnuplot-py-1.8-r1.ebuild
index 037b512df5943..921b7992021fc 100644
--- a/dev-python/gnuplot-py/gnuplot-py-1.8-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/gnuplot-py/gnuplot-py-1.8-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ KEYWORDS="amd64 ~ia64 ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-ma
 IUSE="doc"
 
 DEPEND="
-	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+	|| (
+		dev-python/numpy-python2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
 	sci-visualization/gnuplot"