diff --git a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template b/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
index bd0d2331910..27b72eb2dbe 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build_style=meta
 make_build_target="build"
 nocross="Several dependencies are nocross=yes"
 
-hostmakedepends="automake flex git gperf hyphen icu libtool openldap which gettext xz
+hostmakedepends="automake flex gperf hyphen icu libtool openldap which gettext xz
  perl-Archive-Zip pkg-config qt5-qmake sane ucpp unzip zip python3-setuptools
  fontforge python3-lxml qt6-base-devel gtk4-devel gobject-introspection gnupg"
 makedepends="CoinMP-devel apr-devel avahi-libs-devel clucene-devel
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ _add_lang zh-CN		"Simplified Chinese (Peoples Republic of China)" zh_CN
 _add_lang zh-TW		"Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)" zh_TW
 _add_lang zu		"Zulu"
 
-post_fetch() {
+post_extract() {
 	local srcdistdir=${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version} pkg
 	mkdir -p ${wrksrc}/external/tarballs
 	for pkg in ${skip_extraction} libreoffice-{dictionaries,help,translations}-${version}.tar.xz ; do
@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ do_configure() {
 	# the build system tries to call curl or wget, we can catch any invocations here and add them to distfiles
 	ln -sf /bin/true ${XBPS_WRAPPERDIR}/curl
 	ln -sf /bin/true ${XBPS_WRAPPERDIR}/wget
+	ln -sf /bin/false ${XBPS_WRAPPERDIR}/git
 
 	export QT6DIR=/usr/lib/qt6