diff --git a/dev-cpp/tbb/tbb-2020.3.ebuild b/dev-cpp/tbb/tbb-2020.3.ebuild
index 9e6f7e2e67979..27479b3e46afa 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/tbb/tbb-2020.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/tbb/tbb-2020.3.ebuild
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
 IUSE="debug examples"
 
-DEPEND=""
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 S="${WORKDIR}/oneTBB-${MY_PV}"
 
 DOCS=( CHANGES README README.md doc/Release_Notes.txt )