diff --git a/x11-misc/tinynotify-send/tinynotify-send-1.2.1-r1.ebuild b/x11-misc/tinynotify-send/tinynotify-send-1.2.1-r1.ebuild
index cd56e8ab9bf9d..7e6c1580db40d 100644
--- a/x11-misc/tinynotify-send/tinynotify-send-1.2.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/x11-misc/tinynotify-send/tinynotify-send-1.2.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=6
+EAPI=8
 
 DESCRIPTION="A notification sending utility (using libtinynotify)"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/projg2/tinynotify-send/"
@@ -10,13 +10,18 @@ SRC_URI="https://github.com/projg2/tinynotify-send/releases/download/${P}/${P}.t
 LICENSE="BSD"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
 
-RDEPEND="app-eselect/eselect-notify-send
+DEPEND="
 	x11-libs/libtinynotify:0=
-	~x11-libs/libtinynotify-cli-${PV}"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	virtual/pkgconfig"
+	~x11-libs/libtinynotify-cli-${PV}
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	app-eselect/eselect-notify-send
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
 
 src_configure() {
 	local myconf=(