diff --git a/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.7.ebuild b/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.7.ebuild
index 013d42d15b1e9..d64e82c10cfc6 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.7.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.7.ebuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ USE_RUBY="ruby25 ruby26 ruby27 ruby30"
 
 RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.rdoc	DOCUMENTATION.en.rdoc  DOCUMENTATION.ja.rdoc  README.ja  README.rdoc"
 
-inherit ruby-fakegem eutils
+inherit ruby-fakegem
 
 DESCRIPTION="Rexical is a lexical scanner generator"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/tenderlove/rexical/tree/master"