diff --git a/dev-python/backports/backports-1.0.ebuild b/dev-python/backports/backports-1.0.ebuild
index 96bbccbd9828a..0bfa4f0701ddf 100644
--- a/dev-python/backports/backports-1.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/backports/backports-1.0.ebuild
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ SRC_URI="http://dev.gentoo.org/~radhermit/dist/${P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="PYTHON"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm hppa ppc ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ppc ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
 
 RDEPEND="!<dev-python/backports-lzma-0.0.2-r1"