diff --git a/dev-vcs/git-repo-updater/git-repo-updater-0.5.1.ebuild b/dev-vcs/git-repo-updater/git-repo-updater-0.5.1.ebuild
index e7c418b140..57c079adf3 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/git-repo-updater/git-repo-updater-0.5.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-vcs/git-repo-updater/git-repo-updater-0.5.1.ebuild
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/colorama-0.3.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/git-python-2.1.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest