diff --git a/dev-php/PEAR-Net_Socket/PEAR-Net_Socket-1.2.2.ebuild b/dev-php/PEAR-Net_Socket/PEAR-Net_Socket-1.2.2.ebuild
index 0644497906494..9c8eb5b828768 100644
--- a/dev-php/PEAR-Net_Socket/PEAR-Net_Socket-1.2.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-php/PEAR-Net_Socket/PEAR-Net_Socket-1.2.2.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit php-pear-r2
 DESCRIPTION="PHP class interface to TCP sockets"
 LICENSE="BSD-2"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~hppa ppc ppc64 ~s390 sparc x86"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 arm ~hppa ppc ppc64 ~s390 sparc x86"
 IUSE=""
 DEPEND=""
 RDEPEND=">=dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.10.1"