diff --git a/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0-r1.ebuild
index 8a2721f904a61..373381fe29f55 100644
--- a/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/toolz-0.7.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/zict[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	www-servers/tornado[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	virtual/python-futures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 DEPEND="
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
diff --git a/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0.ebuild b/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0.ebuild
index 201b8cd32d4ad..e753ea98fe69f 100644
--- a/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/distributed/distributed-1.18.0.ebuild
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/toolz-0.7.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/zict[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	www-servers/tornado[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	virtual/python-futures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 DEPEND="
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]