diff --git a/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.76.3.ebuild b/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.76.3.ebuild
index b596880565c9c..109a9695e83f9 100644
--- a/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.76.3.ebuild
+++ b/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.76.3.ebuild
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ DEPEND="
 	>=app-arch/lz4-1.9
 	x11-libs/pango
 "
-RDEPEND="
-	!<x11-libs/vte-0.70.0:2.91
-"
 BDEPEND="
 	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	dev-libs/libxml2:2
diff --git a/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.3.ebuild b/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.3.ebuild
index 8067005ae4b56..33beb5ff9c397 100644
--- a/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.3.ebuild
+++ b/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.3.ebuild
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ DEPEND="
 	>=app-arch/lz4-1.9
 	x11-libs/pango
 "
-RDEPEND="
-	!<x11-libs/vte-0.70.0:2.91
-"
 BDEPEND="
 	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	dev-libs/libxml2:2
diff --git a/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.5.ebuild b/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.5.ebuild
index 8067005ae4b56..33beb5ff9c397 100644
--- a/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.5.ebuild
+++ b/gui-libs/vte-common/vte-common-0.78.5.ebuild
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ DEPEND="
 	>=app-arch/lz4-1.9
 	x11-libs/pango
 "
-RDEPEND="
-	!<x11-libs/vte-0.70.0:2.91
-"
 BDEPEND="
 	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	dev-libs/libxml2:2