diff --git a/media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-1.0.27-r3.ebuild b/media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-1.0.27-r3.ebuild
index 3f1a9bbf3db16..149f3fdc347dc 100644
--- a/media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-1.0.27-r3.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-1.0.27-r3.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
-inherit flag-o-matic multilib-minimal systemd toolchain-funcs udev user
+inherit eutils flag-o-matic multilib-minimal systemd toolchain-funcs udev user
 
 # gphoto and v4l are handled by their usual USE flags.
 # The pint backend was disabled because I could not get it to compile.