diff --git a/sys-boot/drbl/drbl-5.4.2.ebuild b/sys-boot/drbl/drbl-5.4.2.ebuild
index a5def73f66..7f6dcd1f17 100644
--- a/sys-boot/drbl/drbl-5.4.2.ebuild
+++ b/sys-boot/drbl/drbl-5.4.2.ebuild
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://github.com/stevenshiau/drbl/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz ->
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+DEPEND="
 	net-misc/ipcalc
 	sys-devel/bc
 	sys-fs/e2fsprogs