diff --git a/srcpkgs/laditools/template b/srcpkgs/laditools/template
index bdec543935..995a1e91a7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/laditools/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/laditools/template
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ version=1.0.rc2
 revision=2
 wrksrc="ladish-1/${pkgname}"
 build_style=python-module
-makepends="python"
+hostmakepends="python"
+makedepends="python-devel pygtk-devel pyyaml vte-devel"
 depends="ladish jack pygtk pyyaml vte"
 pycompile_module="laditools"
 short_desc="Linux Audio Desktop Integration Tools"
@@ -13,8 +14,3 @@ homepage="http://www.marcochapeau.org/software/laditools"
 license="GPL-3"
 distfiles="http://ladish.org/download/ladish-1-with-deps.tar.bz2"
 checksum=b31b9ca69c42e4e68b5159993a1f505e137d43737430778444bc5e852adeb461
-long_desc="
- LADITools is a set of tools aiming to achieve the goals of the LADI project to
- improve desktop integration and user workflow of Linux audio system based on
- JACK and LASH. Those tools take advantage of the DBus interfaces recently added
- to JACK and LASH to ease the configuration and use of those two great softwares."