diff --git a/dev-python/cachelib/cachelib-0.13.0.ebuild b/dev-python/cachelib/cachelib-0.13.0.ebuild
index 14e98fc303ac8..27ea69cbe7376 100644
--- a/dev-python/cachelib/cachelib-0.13.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/cachelib/cachelib-0.13.0.ebuild
@@ -25,11 +25,13 @@ KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm arm64 x86"
 BDEPEND="
 	test? (
 		dev-db/redis
-		dev-python/pylibmc[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/pytest-xprocess[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/redis[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		net-misc/memcached
 		www-servers/uwsgi[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		!sparc? (
+			dev-python/pylibmc[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		)
 	)
 "