diff --git a/dev-python/pyproject-metadata/pyproject-metadata-0.9.1.ebuild b/dev-python/pyproject-metadata/pyproject-metadata-0.9.1.ebuild
index 355bcdbc351e4..06858303711b0 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyproject-metadata/pyproject-metadata-0.9.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pyproject-metadata/pyproject-metadata-0.9.1.ebuild
@@ -21,12 +21,5 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390
 RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/packaging-19[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-			>=dev-python/tomli-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		' 3.10)
-	)
-"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest