diff --git a/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk b/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk
index 738af9221..a9a1d416a 100644
--- a/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk
+++ b/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk
@@ -12,13 +12,6 @@ LIBEVDEV_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 # Uses PKG_CHECK_MODULES() in configure.ac
 LIBEVDEV_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
 
-# Needs Python to generate a header file
-# We can't rely on the system Python, since it may be too old
-# (missing argparse in python 2.6)
-# libevdev build scripts support both python2 and python3, so avoid unneeded
-# dependency on host-python.
-LIBEVDEV_DEPENDENCIES += $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3),host-python3,host-python)
-
 # package source code coming from git, so it doesn't have generated
 # configure and Makefile.in
 LIBEVDEV_AUTORECONF = YES