diff --git a/app-admin/metalog/metalog-20200113-r1.ebuild b/app-admin/metalog/metalog-20200113-r1.ebuild
index 1223ab1823d18..0d7d5d9205843 100644
--- a/app-admin/metalog/metalog-20200113-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/metalog/metalog-20200113-r1.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390
 IUSE="unicode"
 
 RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libpcre-3.4"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
 	sys-devel/autoconf-archive
 	virtual/pkgconfig"