diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-1.12.2-r1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-1.12.2-r1.ebuild
index c5c7836b91..e0cf15c2ee 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-1.12.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-1.12.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions BSD BSD-2 Boost-1.0 MIT Unicode-DFS-2016 Unlicense ZLIB"
 SLOT="0"
 BDEPEND="dev-go/go-md2man
-	dev-libs/protobuf"
+	dev-libs/protobuf[protoc]"
 
 QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="
 	usr/libexec/podman/${PN}"
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-9999.ebuild
index 81168b09df..689cd3e018 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-containers/netavark/netavark-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions BSD BSD-2 Boost-1.0 MIT Unicode-DFS-2016 Unlicense ZLIB"
 SLOT="0"
 BDEPEND="dev-go/go-md2man
-	dev-libs/protobuf"
+	dev-libs/protobuf[protoc]"
 
 QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="
 	usr/libexec/podman/${PN}"