diff --git a/dev-python/pyside/pyside-6.8.2-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/pyside/pyside-6.8.2-r1.ebuild
index 228a2b6d0606c..6eadff3a3747e 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyside/pyside-6.8.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pyside/pyside-6.8.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -222,6 +222,8 @@ BDEPEND="
 PATCHES=(
 	# Needs porting to newer wheel and setuptools
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-6.8.2-quick-fix-build-wheel.patch"
+	# References files not present in our dev-qt/qtbase
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-no-qtexampleicons.patch" # TODO: remove in 6.8.3
 )
 
 # Build system duplicates system libraries. TODO: fix