diff --git a/development/gedit/README b/development/gedit/README
index 4d58ad4a43..7937566d3e 100644
--- a/development/gedit/README
+++ b/development/gedit/README
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. While
 aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose
 text editor.
 
-This requires GConf and gtksourceview. pygtksourceview is an optional
-dependency for python plugin support and some additional plugins.
+This requires gtksourceview.  pygtksourceview is an optional dependency 
+for python plugin support and some additional plugins.