diff --git a/trinity-base/khotkeys/khotkeys-9999.ebuild b/trinity-base/khotkeys/khotkeys-9999.ebuild
index dbc26dbc..f05f220c 100644
--- a/trinity-base/khotkeys/khotkeys-9999.ebuild
+++ b/trinity-base/khotkeys/khotkeys-9999.ebuild
@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI="7"
-TRINITY_MODULE_NAME="tdebase"
 
+TRINITY_MODULE_NAME="tdebase"
+TRINITY_NEED_ARTS="optional"
 inherit trinity-meta-2
 
-need-arts optional
-
 DESCRIPTION="Trinity hotkey daemon"
 
 DEPEND="x11-libs/libXtst"
@@ -17,7 +16,7 @@ RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 TSM_EXTRACT_ALSO="translations/"
 
 src_configure() {
-	mycmakeargs=(
+	local mycmakeargs=(
 		-DWITH_XTEST=ON
 	)