diff --git a/package/gptfdisk/gptfdisk.mk b/package/gptfdisk/gptfdisk.mk
index 9c9442145e..c5826dfb8d 100644
--- a/package/gptfdisk/gptfdisk.mk
+++ b/package/gptfdisk/gptfdisk.mk
@@ -22,13 +22,8 @@ GPTFDISK_DEPENDENCIES += ncurses
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
-# gptfdisk dependencies may link against libintl/libiconv, so we need
-# to do so as well when linking statically
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT),y)
-GPTFDISK_DEPENDENCIES += gettext
-GPTFDISK_LDLIBS += -lintl
-endif
-
+# gptfdisk dependencies may link against libiconv, so we need to do so
+# as well when linking statically
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV),y)
 GPTFDISK_DEPENDENCIES += libiconv
 GPTFDISK_LDLIBS += -liconv