diff --git a/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r2.ebuild b/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r2.ebuild
index 219174377b5bd..acdf5e1733345 100644
--- a/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/importlib_resources/importlib_resources-5.4.0-r2.ebuild
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ RDEPEND="
 		dev-python/zipp[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	' python3_{8,9} pypy3)"
 BDEPEND="
-	dev-python/toml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/setuptools_scm-3.4.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "