diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 1d3240ee6f..343015ad1d 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -1055,8 +1055,6 @@ with some QEMU specific features of libvirt.
 
 %package libs
 Summary: Client side libraries
-# So remote clients can access libvirt over SSH tunnel
-Requires: cyrus-sasl
 # Needed by default sasl.conf - no onerous extra deps, since
 # 100's of other things on a system already pull in krb5-libs
 Requires: cyrus-sasl-gssapi