diff --git a/conf/intel/portage/package.use/00-sabayon.package.use b/conf/intel/portage/package.use/00-sabayon.package.use
index 391a6ca8..1892e523 100644
--- a/conf/intel/portage/package.use/00-sabayon.package.use
+++ b/conf/intel/portage/package.use/00-sabayon.package.use
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ dev-libs/libical vala
 dev-libs/libksba static-libs
 dev-libs/libpcre pcre16 static-libs
 dev-libs/libpcre2 pcre16 pcre32
-dev-libs/libxml2 icu
+dev-libs/libxml2 icu python_targets_python2_7
 dev-libs/nss utils
 
 # required by net-misc/curl[static-libs], enabled here