diff --git a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
index 678029a0..13781082 100644
--- a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
@@ -205,4 +205,4 @@ sys-boot/grub::gentoo
 kde-apps/kde-l10n::gentoo
 
 # 2016-07-32 Sławomir Nizio: docker-compose (1.8.0_r2) requires this
-<dev-python/requests-2.8
+>=dev-python/requests-2.8