diff --git a/app-benchmarks/poop/poop-9999.ebuild b/app-benchmarks/poop/poop-9999.ebuild
index a56a627a27..e448123998 100644
--- a/app-benchmarks/poop/poop-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-benchmarks/poop/poop-9999.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ EZIG_MIN="9999"
 EZIG_MAX_EXCLUSIVE="99991"
 
 DEPEND="dev-lang/zig:${EZIG_MIN}"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 # see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3382
 # For now, Zig Build System doesn't support CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/etc.