diff --git a/plasma-desktop.spec b/plasma-desktop.spec
index 281d508..c899449 100644
--- a/plasma-desktop.spec
+++ b/plasma-desktop.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Name:           plasma-desktop
 Version:        5.4.1
-Release:        6%{?dist}
+Release:        7%{?dist}
 Summary:        Plasma Desktop shell
 
 License:        GPLv2+ and (GPLv2 or GPLv3)
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ URL:            https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/plasma-desktop
 %endif
 Source0:        http://download.kde.org/%{stable}/plasma/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 
+%global majmin_ver %(echo %{version} | cut -d. -f1,2)
+
 ## downstream patches
 # default kickoff favorites: -preferred_browser(buggy) +firefox +konsole +apper
 Patch100: plasma-desktop-5.4.0-default_favorites.patch
@@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ BuildRequires:  kf5-kinit-devel >= %{kf5_version}
 # libkdeinit5_*
 %{?kf5_kinit_requires}
 
-BuildRequires:  kf5-ksysguard-devel >= %{version}
+BuildRequires:  kf5-ksysguard-devel >= %{majmin_ver}
 
 BuildRequires:  plasma-workspace-devel
 BuildRequires:  kwin-devel
@@ -110,7 +112,7 @@ BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-drv-evdev-devel
 %endif
 
 # Desktop
-Requires:       plasma-workspace >= %{version}
+Requires:       plasma-workspace >= %{majmin_ver}
 Requires:       kf5-filesystem >= %{kf5_version}
 
 # Install breeze
@@ -306,6 +308,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 01 2015 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 5.4.1-7
+- relax some deps %%{version} => %%{majmin_ver} to ease bootstrapping
+
 * Mon Sep 28 2015 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 5.4.1-6
 - re-fix font management, kauth_helper paths (#1208229, kde#353215)