diff --git a/dev-python/faulthandler/faulthandler-2.6.ebuild b/dev-python/faulthandler/faulthandler-2.6.ebuild
index 98e5c2804c532..e2c97d0e41ca8 100644
--- a/dev-python/faulthandler/faulthandler-2.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/faulthandler/faulthandler-2.6.ebuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ EAPI=6
 
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
-inherit distutils-r1 eutils
+inherit distutils-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="functions to dump Python tracebacks explicitly (on fault, user signal, timeout)"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/haypo/faulthandler https://pypi.python.org/pypi/faulthandler"