diff --git a/dev-python/soundfile/soundfile-0.13.1.ebuild b/dev-python/soundfile/soundfile-0.13.1.ebuild
index 34268b38d5db7..f04f9182783df 100644
--- a/dev-python/soundfile/soundfile-0.13.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/soundfile/soundfile-0.13.1.ebuild
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/cffi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	media-libs/libsndfile
+	test? ( media-libs/libsndfile[-minimal] )
 "
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest