diff --git a/dev-libs/Ice/Ice-3.6.9999.ebuild b/dev-libs/Ice/Ice-3.6.9999.ebuild
index edae8ba..9cd9fd4 100644
--- a/dev-libs/Ice/Ice-3.6.9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/Ice/Ice-3.6.9999.ebuild
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0/36"
 KEYWORDS=""
 IUSE="examples libressl +readline mono php python ruby test debug"
+REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
 
 RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/expat-2.0.1
 	>=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.5