diff --git a/srcpkgs/keystone/template b/srcpkgs/keystone/template
index 03957ad91f6..9fd3e8b53c4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/keystone/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/keystone/template
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version=0.9.1
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args='-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=all'
-hostmakedepends="cmake python"
+hostmakedepends="python"
 short_desc="Lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture assembler framework"
 maintainer="Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>"
 license="GPL-2"