diff --git a/app-arch/hardlink/hardlink-0.3.0-r1.ebuild b/app-arch/hardlink/hardlink-0.3.0-r1.ebuild
index 313db6d719041..c6a18f731076b 100644
--- a/app-arch/hardlink/hardlink-0.3.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-arch/hardlink/hardlink-0.3.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86"
 
 RDEPEND="dev-libs/libpcre"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 
 DOCS=( README ${T}/README.rsync )