diff --git a/dev-python/pyperclip/pyperclip-1.7.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pyperclip/pyperclip-1.7.0.ebuild
index 51fbf2c2571fa..976e2d8030bcd 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyperclip/pyperclip-1.7.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pyperclip/pyperclip-1.7.0.ebuild
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ RDEPEND="
 		x11-misc/xclip
 		x11-misc/xsel
 		dev-python/PyQt5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/pygtk[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' python2_7)
 	)
 "