diff --git a/app-emulation/bochs/bochs-2.6.10.ebuild b/app-emulation/bochs/bochs-2.6.10.ebuild
index c4f9fde9ba89e..65f52e4ec67ac 100644
--- a/app-emulation/bochs/bochs-2.6.10.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/bochs/bochs-2.6.10.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 "
 BDEPEND="
 	doc? ( app-text/docbook-sgml-utils )
-	sys-apps/sed
 	>=app-text/opensp-1.5
 "