diff --git a/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.3.14_p20210810-r3.ebuild b/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.3.14_p20210810-r3.ebuild
index 2338c037f3d08..64d2c88979ae0 100644
--- a/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.3.14_p20210810-r3.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.3.14_p20210810-r3.ebuild
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ BDEPEND="
 		${PYTHON_DEPS}
 		$(python_gen_any_dep 'dev-python/fonttools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]')
 		media-libs/fontconfig
-		perl? ( virtual/perl-Test-Simple )
 	)
 "