diff --git a/libraries/zfec/README b/libraries/zfec/README
index 93f3d9a02b..957d71bbb6 100644
--- a/libraries/zfec/README
+++ b/libraries/zfec/README
@@ -21,5 +21,3 @@ package makes several changes from the original "fec" package, including
 addition of the Python API, refactoring of the C API to support zero-copy
 operation, a few clean-ups and optimizations of the core code itself, and the
 addition of a command-line tool named "zfec".
-
-This package requires pysetuptools, pyutil and darcsver.
diff --git a/libraries/zfec/zfec.info b/libraries/zfec/zfec.info
index caccfd7153..fb15477774 100644
--- a/libraries/zfec/zfec.info
+++ b/libraries/zfec/zfec.info
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ DOWNLOAD="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zfec/zfec-1.4.24.tar.gz"
 MD5SUM="e1bca3a1f18374f72bdf8cd42ea9c919"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="darcsver pysetuptools pyutil"
+REQUIRES="darcsver pyutil"
 MAINTAINER="Markus Reichelt"
 EMAIL="slackbuilds@mareichelt.de"