diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/kallisto/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/kallisto/package.py
index d33bd970a2d101fafa8fe6f96dafd5f2beb63df2..25e5fcb9a08d78b3974b9e3be8ed8c8ea5a20927 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/kallisto/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/kallisto/package.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ class Kallisto(CMakePackage):
 
     depends_on('zlib')
     depends_on('hdf5')
-    depends_on('mpich')
 
     # htslib isn't built in time to be used....
     parallel = False