diff --git a/recipes-security/libcap-ng/libcap-ng_0.7.3.bb b/recipes-security/libcap-ng/libcap-ng_0.7.3.bb
index a377ddd..ef70207 100644
--- a/recipes-security/libcap-ng/libcap-ng_0.7.3.bb
+++ b/recipes-security/libcap-ng/libcap-ng_0.7.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "The libcap-ng library is intended to make programming with posix capabilities much easier than the traditional libcap library."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/index.html"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
-DEPENDS = "libcap"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz"