diff --git a/development/alex/README b/development/alex/README
index ced0e751a9..619977c377 100644
--- a/development/alex/README
+++ b/development/alex/README
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell, given a
 description of the tokens to be recognised in the form of regular
 expressions.  It is similar to the tool lex or flex for C/C++.
-
-This requires ghc, haskell-transformers, haskell-mtl, haskell-random,
-and haskell-QuickCheck.
diff --git a/development/alex/alex.info b/development/alex/alex.info
index 9da4b0217a..2975135c84 100644
--- a/development/alex/alex.info
+++ b/development/alex/alex.info
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ DOWNLOAD="http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/alex/3.0.2/alex-3.0.2.tar.
 MD5SUM="b8f0d831b65d05e5f54ff08bd3d9d10d"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="ghc haskell-QuickCheck haskell-mtl haskell-random haskell-transformers"
+REQUIRES="ghc haskell-transformers haskell-mtl haskell-random haskell-QuickCheck"
 MAINTAINER="Mikko Värri"
 EMAIL="vmj@linuxbox.fi"