diff --git a/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_20070831.bb b/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_20070831.bb
index a379254937..a253b74409 100644
--- a/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_20070831.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_20070831.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Hardware Abstraction Layer device information"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal"
 SECTION = "unknown"
 LICENSE = "GPL AFL"
-DEPENDS = "hal"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/hal-info/;protocol=git;tag=HAL_INFO_${PV}"
 
diff --git a/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_git.bb b/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_git.bb
index d2b77c29bf..0cb44706f6 100644
--- a/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_git.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/hal/hal-info_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Hardware Abstraction Layer device information"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal"
 SECTION = "unknown"
 LICENSE = "GPL AFL"
-DEPENDS = "hal"
 
 PV = "${SRCDATE}+git"
 PR = "r2"