diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb
index 1eb6c20a6d..ceae9a457a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/redis/hiredis"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d84d659a35c666d23233e54503aaea51"
-DEPENDS = "redis"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/redis/hiredis;protocol=https;branch=master"
 SRCREV = "c14775b4e48334e0262c9f168887578f4a368b5d"
@@ -16,3 +15,5 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "ssl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[ssl] = "-DENABLE_SSL=ON, -DENABLE_SSL=OFF, openssl"
 
 FILES:${PN}-dev += "${datadir}/hiredis_ssl ${prefix}/build"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "redis"