diff --git a/sci-astronomy/pal/pal-0.9.8.ebuild b/sci-astronomy/pal/pal-0.9.8.ebuild
index 701145f925b75..cb2ae69a6b615 100644
--- a/sci-astronomy/pal/pal-0.9.8.ebuild
+++ b/sci-astronomy/pal/pal-0.9.8.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://github.com/Starlink/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-IUSE="doc static-libs"
+IUSE="static-libs"
 RDEPEND="sci-astronomy/erfa:="
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"