diff --git a/srcpkgs/rtkit/template b/srcpkgs/rtkit/template
index 6500d7fa0f..9173bcf532 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rtkit/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rtkit/template
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ homepage="http://git.0pointer.de/?p=rtkit.git"
 distfiles="http://0pointer.de/public/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 checksum=68859108cff6410901502b58365eb7607da37110a06b837762f771735f58acd0
 
-makedepends="pkg-config dbus-devel libcap-devel"
+makedepends="pkg-config dbus-devel libcap-devel shadow"
 
 post_install() {
 	# DBus configuration