diff --git a/haskell/haskell-zlib/README b/haskell/haskell-zlib/README
index b2435f0eb2..84c7908202 100644
--- a/haskell/haskell-zlib/README
+++ b/haskell/haskell-zlib/README
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@ compressing and decompressing streams of data represented as lazy ByteStrings.
 It uses the zlib C library so it has high performance. It supports the "zlib",
 "gzip" and "raw" compression formats.
 
-This requires ghc.
-
 After uninstalling, run the following command to unregister the package
 from the ghc package database:   ghc-pkg recache