diff --git a/media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop/gtk-recordmydesktop-0.3.8-r3.ebuild b/media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop/gtk-recordmydesktop-0.3.8-r3.ebuild
index a57d561974095..111584b31dd4d 100644
--- a/media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop/gtk-recordmydesktop-0.3.8-r3.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop/gtk-recordmydesktop-0.3.8-r3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
 IUSE=""
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
 # Test is buggy : bug #186752
 # Tries to run intl-toolupdate without it being substituted from
 # configure, make test tries run make check in flumotion/test what