diff --git a/dev-python/pygit2/pygit2-1.6.1.ebuild b/dev-python/pygit2/pygit2-1.6.1.ebuild
index 19d97d9dec367..69a3e8d9cbe47 100644
--- a/dev-python/pygit2/pygit2-1.6.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pygit2/pygit2-1.6.1.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2-with-linking-exception"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 x86"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	=dev-libs/libgit2-1.1*