diff --git a/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild b/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild
index 53eac8d76d663..39771f8d9f976 100644
--- a/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 IUSE=""
 
-DEPEND=""
 RDEPEND="<dev-python/requests-3.0.0"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 
 DOCS=( AUTHORS.rst HISTORY.rst README.rst )