diff --git a/development/couchdb/README b/development/couchdb/README
index 205ace47f4..939e0a9220 100644
--- a/development/couchdb/README
+++ b/development/couchdb/README
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript.  CouchDB also
 offers incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection
 and resolution.  CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API.
 
-This requires js (spidermonkey) and erlang-otp.
-
 You must have a "couchdb" user and group before running this script;
 something like this should suffice:
   # groupadd -g 231 couchdb
diff --git a/development/couchdb/couchdb.info b/development/couchdb/couchdb.info
index 5d3f3b27d4..92bbb828d3 100644
--- a/development/couchdb/couchdb.info
+++ b/development/couchdb/couchdb.info
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ DOWNLOAD="http://apache.crihan.fr/dist/couchdb/0.11.0/apache-couchdb-0.11.0.tar.
 MD5SUM="c1784e3850da01dc37dad20c5b1a85f8"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="erlang-otp js"
+REQUIRES="js erlang-otp"
 MAINTAINER="Nicolas Steinmetz"
 EMAIL="nsteinmetz@gmail.com"