diff --git a/srcpkgs/tidy5/template b/srcpkgs/tidy5/template
index 33653605786..e7aeab0d7a1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tidy5/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tidy5/template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ _reponame=tidy-html5
 wrksrc="${_reponame}-${version}"
 build_style=cmake
 cmake_builddir=build/cmake
-hostmakedepends="cmake libxslt"
+hostmakedepends="libxslt"
 short_desc="Tool to tidy down your HTML/HTML5 code to a clean style"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="W3C"