diff --git a/programming/language/perl/perl-libwww/pspec.xml b/programming/language/perl/perl-libwww/pspec.xml
index 5b6d30f4a8..6baf5cf8e7 100644
--- a/programming/language/perl/perl-libwww/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/perl/perl-libwww/pspec.xml
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@
             <Dependency>perl-Encode-Locale</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl-HTTP-Negotiate</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl-WWW-Robotrules</Dependency>
-            <!-- optional dependency - for url schemes -->
-            <!--<Dependency>perl-LWP-Protocol-https</Dependency>-->
         </RuntimeDependencies>
         <Files>
             <Path fileType="executable">/usr/bin</Path>