diff --git a/dev-python/jsonref/jsonref-0.1.ebuild b/dev-python/jsonref/jsonref-0.1.ebuild
index 9459df117774f..55256ef283043 100644
--- a/dev-python/jsonref/jsonref-0.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/jsonref/jsonref-0.1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=7
 DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=no
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7,8,9} )
 
-inherit eutils distutils-r1
+inherit distutils-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="An implementation of JSON Reference for Python"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/gazpachoking/jsonref https://pypi.org/project/jsonref/"