diff --git a/media-libs/libsdl2/libsdl2-2.32.54.ebuild b/media-libs/libsdl2/libsdl2-2.32.54.ebuild
index f1c81711ff4e8..5bd93727613b8 100644
--- a/media-libs/libsdl2/libsdl2-2.32.54.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/libsdl2/libsdl2-2.32.54.ebuild
@@ -15,22 +15,25 @@ SLOT="0"
 # unkeyworded for testing
 #KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 # this skips most non-compat libsdl2 former IUSE that are not used by revdeps,
-# albeit reason that some depend on 'alsa' for should probably be reviewed
-# (static-libs left out because it is useless for the app-emulation/qemu
-# use case given static sdl2-compat dlopens the shared libsdl3 anyway)
+# albeit it is questionable that some depend on audio alsa/pipewire (note that
+# static-libs is left out because it is useless for static-only builds given
+# it will dlopen the shared libsdl3 anyway)
 #
 # TODO: either update revdeps to have (+) on no-op IUSE (haptic, joystick,
 # sound, and video) then cleanup, or don't for less overlay issues and instead
 # force in profiles to avoid unnecessary rebuilds -- not forced right now given
 # >=2.32.50 would force for a potential future non-compat 2.34.0 fwiw
-IUSE="X alsa gles2 +haptic +joystick kms opengl +sound test +video vulkan wayland"
+IUSE="
+	X alsa gles2 +haptic +joystick kms opengl pipewire pulseaudio
+	+sound test +video vulkan wayland
+"
 REQUIRED_USE="gles2? ( opengl )"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
 # libsdl3 is dlopen'ed and USE at build time should not matter, it enables
 # everything but will not work without libsdl3 support at runtime
 RDEPEND="
-	media-libs/libsdl3[X?,alsa?,opengl?,vulkan?,wayland?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	media-libs/libsdl3[X?,alsa?,opengl?,pipewire?,pulseaudio?,vulkan?,wayland?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"