diff --git a/dev-python/cheetah/cheetah-2.4.4-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/cheetah/cheetah-2.4.4-r1.ebuild
index 93980236036ac..ecc9e208b5439 100644
--- a/dev-python/cheetah/cheetah-2.4.4-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/cheetah/cheetah-2.4.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI="5"
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ IUSE=""
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 ~arm ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
 SLOT="0"
 
-RDEPEND="dev-python/markdown[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+RDEPEND="dev-python/markdown[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!dev-python/cheetah3"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"