diff --git a/sys-libs/tevent/files/talloc-disable-python.patch b/sys-libs/tevent/files/talloc-disable-python.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6ef45eb37fb89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-libs/tevent/files/talloc-disable-python.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+--- a/lib/talloc/wscript	2017-04-28 04:57:26.000000000 -0400
++++ b/lib/talloc/wscript	2017-07-05 14:30:42.700580464 -0400
+@@ -74,19 +74,22 @@
+                                      implied_deps='replace'):
+             conf.define('USING_SYSTEM_TALLOC', 1)
+ 
+-        using_system_pytalloc_util = True
+-        if not conf.CHECK_BUNDLED_SYSTEM_PKG('pytalloc-util', minversion=VERSION,
+-                                             implied_deps='talloc replace'):
++        if conf.env.disable_python:
+             using_system_pytalloc_util = False
+-
+-        # We need to get a pytalloc-util for all the python versions
+-        # we are building for
+-        if conf.env['EXTRA_PYTHON']:
+-            name = 'pytalloc-util' + conf.all_envs['extrapython']['PYTHON_SO_ABI_FLAG']
+-            if not conf.CHECK_BUNDLED_SYSTEM_PKG(name, minversion=VERSION,
++        else:
++            using_system_pytalloc_util = True
++            if not conf.CHECK_BUNDLED_SYSTEM_PKG('pytalloc-util', minversion=VERSION,
+                                                  implied_deps='talloc replace'):
+                 using_system_pytalloc_util = False
+ 
++            # We need to get a pytalloc-util for all the python versions
++            # we are building for
++            if conf.env['EXTRA_PYTHON']:
++                name = 'pytalloc-util' + conf.all_envs['extrapython']['PYTHON_SO_ABI_FLAG']
++                if not conf.CHECK_BUNDLED_SYSTEM_PKG(name, minversion=VERSION,
++                                                     implied_deps='talloc replace'):
++                    using_system_pytalloc_util = False
++
+         if using_system_pytalloc_util:
+             conf.define('USING_SYSTEM_PYTALLOC_UTIL', 1)
+ 
diff --git a/sys-libs/tevent/tevent-0.9.33.ebuild b/sys-libs/tevent/tevent-0.9.33.ebuild
index c454b5e965eb3..fc46807e4d12c 100644
--- a/sys-libs/tevent/tevent-0.9.33.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/tevent/tevent-0.9.33.ebuild
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 # build system does not work with python3
 REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/talloc-disable-python.patch
+)
+
 WAF_BINARY="${S}/buildtools/bin/waf"
 
 pkg_setup() {
@@ -39,6 +43,8 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 multilib_src_configure() {
 	waf-utils_src_configure \
+		--bundled-libraries=NONE \
+		--builtin-libraries=NONE \
 		$(multilib_native_usex python '' '--disable-python')
 }