diff --git a/dev-python/mechanicalsoup/mechanicalsoup-1.4.0.ebuild b/dev-python/mechanicalsoup/mechanicalsoup-1.4.0.ebuild
index 298d0cb0bfacd..ce6f11a8dbf76 100644
--- a/dev-python/mechanicalsoup/mechanicalsoup-1.4.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/mechanicalsoup/mechanicalsoup-1.4.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ RDEPEND="
 BDEPEND="
 	test? (
 		>=dev-python/requests-mock-1.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-httpbin[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	)
 "
 
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=( pytest-{httpbin,mock} )
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 distutils_enable_sphinx docs