diff --git a/package/evemu/evemu.mk b/package/evemu/evemu.mk
index b27033afa4..886ceb1142 100644
--- a/package/evemu/evemu.mk
+++ b/package/evemu/evemu.mk
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ EVEMU_SITE = http://www.freedesktop.org/software/evemu
 EVEMU_SOURCE = evemu-$(EVEMU_VERSION).tar.xz
 EVEMU_LICENSE = LGPL-3.0 (library), GPL-3.0 (tools)
 EVEMU_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+EVEMU_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
 # asciidoc used to generate manpages, which we don't need, and if it's
 # present on the build host, it ends getting called with our host-python