diff --git a/media-video/aegisub/aegisub-9999.ebuild b/media-video/aegisub/aegisub-9999.ebuild
index afd9046da3ae7..3e2282e46fd4c 100644
--- a/media-video/aegisub/aegisub-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/aegisub/aegisub-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
+EAPI=8
 
 LUA_COMPAT=( luajit )
 LUA_REQ_USE="lua52compat"
@@ -26,13 +26,16 @@ fi
 LICENSE="BSD MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 IUSE="+alsa debug +fftw openal portaudio pulseaudio spell test +uchardet"
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}
+	|| ( alsa openal portaudio pulseaudio )"
 RESTRICT="test"
 
 # aegisub bundles luabins (https://github.com/agladysh/luabins).
 # Unfortunately, luabins upstream is practically dead since 2010.
 # Thus unbundling luabins isn't worth the effort.
 RDEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}
-	x11-libs/wxGTK:${WX_GTK_VER}[X,opengl,debug?]
+	x11-libs/wxGTK:${WX_GTK_VER}=[X,opengl,debug?]
 	dev-libs/boost:=[icu,nls]
 	dev-libs/icu:=
 	media-libs/ffmpegsource:=
@@ -67,16 +70,13 @@ BDEPEND="dev-util/intltool
 	)
 "
 
-REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}
-	|| ( alsa openal portaudio pulseaudio )"
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/3.4.0/Fix-build-without-pch.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/3.4.0/Use-generated-git-version.patch
+)
 
 BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}/${P}-build"
 
-PATCHES=(
-"${FILESDIR}/3.4.0/Fix-build-without-pch.patch"
-"${FILESDIR}/3.4.0/Use-generated-git-version.patch"
-)
-
 aegisub_check_compiler() {
 	if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE} != "binary" ]] && ! test-flag-CXX -std=c++20; then
 		die "Your compiler lacks C++20 support."