diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/package.use b/profiles/targets/desktop/package.use
index 0ec0279187b2c..cb0f13731f3d8 100644
--- a/profiles/targets/desktop/package.use
+++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/package.use
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-# Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (22 Jul 2018)
-# Required by media-video/shotcut, kde-apps/kdenlive
->=media-libs/mlt-6.6.0 sdl2
-
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (09 Jun 2018)
 # Required by app-office/libreoffice
 dev-libs/xmlsec nss