diff --git a/srcpkgs/i3/template b/srcpkgs/i3/template
index d6074b6a895..12d60a1e662 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/i3/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/i3/template
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pkgname=i3
 version=4.8
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-makefile
-hostmakedepends="which perl pkg-config asciidoc xmlto"
+hostmakedepends="which pkg-config"
 makedepends="pcre-devel>=8.30 yajl-devel libxcb-devel libev-devel
  pango-devel startup-notification-devel>=0.12_3 xcb-util-devel>=0.3.9
  xcb-util-keysyms-devel>=0.3.9 xcb-util-wm-devel>=0.3.9 xcb-util-cursor-devel"
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ homepage="http://i3wm.org/"
 distfiles="${homepage}/downloads/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=502c34290f239780bb40352191f0500e8f35d2446eddb573c67c27873d6a1b6b
 
-post_build() {
-	make ${makejobs} -C man
-}
 post_install() {
 	vmkdir usr/share/man/man1
 	install -m644 man/*.1 ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1