diff --git a/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild b/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild
index 18e203a2aed60..9eb791e517b3c 100644
--- a/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/cassandra-driver/cassandra-driver-2.7.2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 IUSE="+cython doc +libev +murmur test"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	~dev-python/futures-2.2.0
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		~dev-python/futures-2.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' python2_7)
 	virtual/python-futures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/six-1.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "