diff --git a/devel/xapian-core/DEPENDS b/devel/xapian-core/DEPENDS
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f729cb8679..00000000000
--- a/devel/xapian-core/DEPENDS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-depends rdflib
-depends xapian-core
-