diff --git a/dev-lang/moarvm/moarvm-9999.ebuild b/dev-lang/moarvm/moarvm-9999.ebuild
index 60e866d48a00a..cd8b0916bf63d 100644
--- a/dev-lang/moarvm/moarvm-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/moarvm/moarvm-9999.ebuild
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ IUSE="asan clang debug doc static-libs optimize ubsan"
 
 RDEPEND="dev-libs/libatomic_ops
 		>=dev-libs/libuv-1.26
-		dev-lang/lua:0=
 		dev-libs/libffi"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}