diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.6.7.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.6.7.bb
index 2b227c95d1..59d7425c8d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.6.7.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.6.7.bb
@@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ python samba_populate_packages() {
 
 PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_prepend = "samba_populate_packages "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-base ${PN}-python ${PN}-dsdb-modules"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-python += "pytalloc python-tdb"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-base"
 
 FILES_${PN}-base = "${sbindir}/nmbd \
                     ${sbindir}/smbd \