diff --git a/sys-fs/fuse/fuse-2.9.9-r1.ebuild b/sys-fs/fuse/fuse-2.9.9-r1.ebuild
index 91a95b0677f09..b971294e92915 100644
--- a/sys-fs/fuse/fuse-2.9.9-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-fs/fuse/fuse-2.9.9-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 s
 IUSE="examples kernel_linux kernel_FreeBSD static-libs"
 
 PDEPEND="kernel_FreeBSD? ( sys-fs/fuse4bsd )"
-DEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 RDEPEND=">=sys-fs/fuse-common-3.3.0-r1"
 
 pkg_setup() {