diff --git a/dev-ml/ocaml_intrinsics/ocaml_intrinsics-0.15.0.ebuild b/dev-ml/ocaml_intrinsics/ocaml_intrinsics-0.15.0.ebuild
index df486e2b56..2bead094ad 100644
--- a/dev-ml/ocaml_intrinsics/ocaml_intrinsics-0.15.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ml/ocaml_intrinsics/ocaml_intrinsics-0.15.0.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ SLOT="0/${PV}"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 IUSE="ocamlopt"
 
-RDEPEND="dev-ml/dune-configurator"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="dev-ml/dune-configurator"
 
 RESTRICT="test" # even upstream doesn't know how to test