diff --git a/www-misc/urlwatch/urlwatch-2.21.ebuild b/www-misc/urlwatch/urlwatch-2.21.ebuild
index bdfd81f77975c..23e7fa4367cde 100644
--- a/www-misc/urlwatch/urlwatch-2.21.ebuild
+++ b/www-misc/urlwatch/urlwatch-2.21.ebuild
@@ -3,10 +3,8 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8,9} )
-# The package uses entry points but setup.py is weird
-# so the eclass doesn't detect it
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=manual
 
 inherit distutils-r1
 
@@ -28,10 +26,8 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/minidb[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 BDEPEND="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	test? (
 		${RDEPEND}
 		dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]