diff --git a/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.5.ebuild b/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.5.ebuild
index 0de3cfb3c84b9..e9b9e28680a38 100644
--- a/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.5.ebuild
@@ -18,10 +18,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
 IUSE="test"
 RESTRICT+=" !test? ( test )"
 
-RDEPEND="
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/backports-functools-lru-cache[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
-"
-BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+BDEPEND="
 	test? (
 		dev-python/beautifulsoup[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
diff --git a/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.6.ebuild b/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.6.ebuild
index 6deba694fc31f..5694826db49f5 100644
--- a/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-1.9.6.ebuild
@@ -18,10 +18,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
 IUSE="test"
 RESTRICT+=" !test? ( test )"
 
-RDEPEND="
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/backports-functools-lru-cache[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
-"
-BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+BDEPEND="
 	test? (
 		dev-python/beautifulsoup[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]