diff --git a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.22-r1.ebuild b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.22-r1.ebuild
index 655a724ee3..af19a1f4b3 100644
--- a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.22-r1.ebuild
+++ b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.22-r1.ebuild
@@ -10,22 +10,15 @@ inherit distutils-r1
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
-DESCRIPTION="meta-package for the nwg-shell project"
+DESCRIPTION="libraries an common functions for the nwg-shell project"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	app-misc/gopsuinfo
-	app-misc/nwg-look
-	gui-apps/azote
-	gui-apps/nwg-bar
-	gui-apps/nwg-displays
-	|| ( gui-apps/nwg-dock gui-apps/nwg-dock-hyprland )
-	gui-apps/nwg-drawer
-	gui-apps/nwg-menu
-	gui-apps/nwg-panel
-	gui-apps/nwg-shell-config
+	gui-apps/grim
+	gui-apps/swappy
+	gui-apps/slurp
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"