diff --git a/sys-libs/ldb/ldb-2.0.8.ebuild b/sys-libs/ldb/ldb-2.0.8.ebuild
index 0b0fd52ea9c60..714949be4e5a9 100644
--- a/sys-libs/ldb/ldb-2.0.8.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/ldb/ldb-2.0.8.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ SRC_URI="https://www.samba.org/ftp/pub/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="LGPL-3"
 SLOT="0/${PV}"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 ~hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc x86"
-IUSE="doc +ldap +lmdb python"
+IUSE="doc +ldap +lmdb python test"
+
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+REQUIRED_USE="test? ( python )"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	!elibc_FreeBSD? ( dev-libs/libbsd[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )