diff --git a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
index 68d4258d..cdbf67ed 100644
--- a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
@@ -179,4 +179,4 @@ app-office/libreoffice::gentoo
 
 # 2013-07-11 Joost Ruis: Blender needs Python-3 only gifted people may unmask this
 media-gfx/blender
->=dev-python/setuptools-0.8
+>=dev-python/setuptools-0.7.8