diff --git a/app-emacs/emacs-daemon/emacs-daemon-0.22.ebuild b/app-emacs/emacs-daemon/emacs-daemon-0.22.ebuild
index 6e53e7f176aaa..396b2978db3eb 100644
--- a/app-emacs/emacs-daemon/emacs-daemon-0.22.ebuild
+++ b/app-emacs/emacs-daemon/emacs-daemon-0.22.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86"
 
-DEPEND=">=virtual/emacs-23"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
 SITEFILE="10${PN}-gentoo.el"
 
 pkg_setup() {