diff --git a/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r3.ebuild b/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r3.ebuild
index dbe600eaff2b7..9852a5a01ffc3 100644
--- a/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r3.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=8
+# please keep this ebuild at EAPI 7 -- sys-apps/portage dep
+EAPI=7
 
 DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=flit
 # This is a backport of Python 3.9's importlib.resources