diff --git a/srcpkgs/seaweedfs/template b/srcpkgs/seaweedfs/template
index 4c3a91e3a89..af07c3694fa 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/seaweedfs/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/seaweedfs/template
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ revision=1
 build_style=go
 go_import_path="github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs"
 go_package="github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/weed"
-hostmakedepends="git"
 short_desc="Simple and highly scalable distributed file system"
 maintainer="Toyam Cox <Vaelatern@voidlinux.org>"
 license="Apache-2.0"