diff --git a/network/claws-mail/README b/network/claws-mail/README
index fb10f4b264..2e24c4e8e7 100644
--- a/network/claws-mail/README
+++ b/network/claws-mail/README
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ any other email client, and export them just as easily.
 Lots of extra functionality, like an RSS aggregator, calendar, or laptop
 LED handling, are provided by extra plugins.
 
-This requires libetpan.  If you want to be able to print html emails, you
-will also need to have html2ps installed.
+If you want to be able to print html emails, you will also need the
+optional dependency html2ps.
diff --git a/network/claws-mail/claws-mail.info b/network/claws-mail/claws-mail.info
index 69d54d2809..b5967990bb 100644
--- a/network/claws-mail/claws-mail.info
+++ b/network/claws-mail/claws-mail.info
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sylpheed-claws/claws-mail-3.8.1.tar.b
 MD5SUM="d388929fb1c8f04d4bcb2139faaf9e70"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="html2ps libetpan"
+REQUIRES="libetpan"
 MAINTAINER="Erik Hanson"
 EMAIL="erik@slackbuilds.org"