diff --git a/dev-ruby/httpclient/httpclient-2.8.3.ebuild b/dev-ruby/httpclient/httpclient-2.8.3.ebuild
index 476078115e1f2..7479097a9286a 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/httpclient/httpclient-2.8.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/httpclient/httpclient-2.8.3.ebuild
@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE=""
 
-RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	!dev-ruby/http-access2"
-
 ruby_add_rdepend "virtual/ruby-ssl"
 
 ruby_add_bdepend "doc? ( dev-ruby/rdoc )"