diff --git a/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.0.5.ebuild b/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.0.5.ebuild
index efa4090a1ecc3..8b93665a1a94e 100644
--- a/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.0.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/astropy/astropy-1.0.5.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
 IUSE="doc test"
 
 RDEPEND="
-	!dev-python/pyfits
 	>=dev-libs/expat-2.1.0:0=
 	dev-python/configobj[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]