diff --git a/main/perl-boolean/APKBUILD b/main/perl-boolean/APKBUILD
index 41d36369d9adef3905ee055425f30a0dc2fa1eb0..86bb7939c819b95782806ea3c0bf1a8d37358436 100644
--- a/main/perl-boolean/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-boolean/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/boolean"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl"
-makedepends="perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/boolean-$pkgver.tar.gz"