diff --git a/dev-lang/mercury-extras/mercury-extras-22.01.1.ebuild b/dev-lang/mercury-extras/mercury-extras-22.01.1.ebuild
index 173c1939754c0..239c88e3cd60f 100644
--- a/dev-lang/mercury-extras/mercury-extras-22.01.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/mercury-extras/mercury-extras-22.01.1.ebuild
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
+EAPI=8
 
-inherit multilib vcs-clean
+inherit vcs-clean
 
 PATCHSET_VER="1"
 MY_P=mercury-srcdist-${PV}
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Additional libraries and tools that are not part of the Mercury sta
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.mercurylang.org/index.html"
 SRC_URI="https://dl.mercurylang.org/release/${MY_P}.tar.gz
 	https://dev.gentoo.org/~keri/distfiles/mercury-extras/${P}-gentoo-patchset-${PATCHSET_VER}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}/extras
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
@@ -41,8 +42,6 @@ RDEPEND="
 
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
-S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}/extras
-
 mercury_pkgs() {
 	echo "
 		align_right/align_right:bin: