diff --git a/media-gfx/pngnq/pngnq-1.1-r2.ebuild b/media-gfx/pngnq/pngnq-1.1-r2.ebuild
index fcbefe5b9a9f1..3cb456cbf8a30 100644
--- a/media-gfx/pngnq/pngnq-1.1-r2.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/pngnq/pngnq-1.1-r2.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="BSD pngnq rwpng"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 x86"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
 
 RDEPEND="media-libs/libpng:0="
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"