diff --git a/dev-perl/IO-Event/IO-Event-0.813.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-perl/IO-Event/IO-Event-0.813.0-r1.ebuild
index 90535acbd1efd..c8d60026e9073 100644
--- a/dev-perl/IO-Event/IO-Event-0.813.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/IO-Event/IO-Event-0.813.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ inherit perl-module
 DESCRIPTION="Tied Filehandles for Nonblocking IO with Object Callbacks"
 
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
 IUSE=""
 
 RDEPEND="