diff --git a/avalon-logkit.spec b/avalon-logkit.spec
index 2493d17..c244eb3 100644
--- a/avalon-logkit.spec
+++ b/avalon-logkit.spec
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ Requires:	jms
 Requires:	jdbc-stdext
 BuildRequires:  jpackage-utils >= 0:1.5
 BuildRequires:	ant
-# XXX the next line forces beehive to play nice
-BuildRequires:  xerces-j2, xml-commons-apis
 BuildRequires:  javamail
 BuildRequires:  junit
 BuildRequires:  log4j