diff --git a/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.8.ebuild b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.8.ebuild
index d50eb964c4702..b816912c9b3c9 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.8.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.8.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
-inherit eutils multilib-minimal
+inherit eutils ltprune multilib-minimal
 
 DESCRIPTION="Library to execute a function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor"
 HOMEPAGE="