diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/metadata.xml b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/metadata.xml
index 20bceb3089..c55e088975 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/metadata.xml
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/metadata.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 		<name>Violet Purcell</name>
 	</maintainer>
 	<use>
-		<flag name="reference">Symlink to dev-util/ninja.</flag>
-		<flag name="samurai">Symlink to dev-util/samurai.</flag>
+		<flag name="reference">Symlink to dev-build/ninja.</flag>
+		<flag name="samurai">Symlink to dev-build/samurai.</flag>
 	</use>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/ninja-1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/ninja-1.ebuild
index 419eabab35..4107b5569b 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/ninja-1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/app-alternatives/ninja/ninja-1.ebuild
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright 2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2023-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
 
 ALTERNATIVES=(
-	"reference:>=dev-util/ninja-1.11.1-r3"
-	samurai:dev-util/samurai
+	"reference:>=dev-build/ninja-1.11.1-r3"
+	samurai:dev-build/samurai
 )
 
 inherit app-alternatives
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ inherit app-alternatives
 DESCRIPTION="ninja symlinks"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
 
-RDEPEND="!<dev-util/ninja-1.11.1-r3"
+RDEPEND="!<dev-build/ninja-1.11.1-r3"
 
 src_install() {
 	local alt=$(get_alternative)