diff --git a/app-portage/portage-lostfiles/portage-lostfiles-0.2.0.ebuild b/app-portage/portage-lostfiles/portage-lostfiles-0.2.0.ebuild
index e8893c17d3..c09cd18275 100644
--- a/app-portage/portage-lostfiles/portage-lostfiles-0.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-portage/portage-lostfiles/portage-lostfiles-0.2.0.ebuild
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ EAPI=7
 
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
 
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
+
 inherit distutils-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="A simple script to identify files not tracked by Portage package manager"