diff --git a/sys-apps/paxctl/paxctl-0.9.ebuild b/sys-apps/paxctl/paxctl-0.9.ebuild
index 4ab860b422541..797562ba4f0fe 100644
--- a/sys-apps/paxctl/paxctl-0.9.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/paxctl/paxctl-0.9.ebuild
@@ -1,27 +1,26 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI="5"
+EAPI=8
 
-inherit toolchain-funcs epatch
+inherit toolchain-funcs
 
 DESCRIPTION="Manages various PaX related program header flags for Elf32, Elf64, binaries"
 HOMEPAGE="https://pax.grsecurity.net"
 SRC_URI="https://pax.grsecurity.net/${P}.tar.gz"
 
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-IUSE=""
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
 
-DEPEND=">=sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1"
-RDEPEND=""
+BDEPEND=">=sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1"
 
 src_prepare() {
+	default
+
 	sed \
 		"s:--owner 0 --group 0::g" \
 		-i Makefile || die
-	epatch_user
 }
 
 src_compile() {