diff --git a/development/monotone/README b/development/monotone/README
index 889488f39a..a5a56fe9d5 100644
--- a/development/monotone/README
+++ b/development/monotone/README
@@ -6,5 +6,3 @@ party testing. It uses cryptographic version naming and client-side RSA
 certificates. It has good internationalization support, has no external 
 dependencies, runs on linux, solaris, OSX, windows, and other unixes, 
 and is licensed under the GNU GPL. 
-
-Monotone requires Botan and Lua for building.