diff --git a/acl.changes b/acl.changes
index fc8d9ce..839a6f7 100644
--- a/acl.changes
+++ b/acl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat May 20 09:25:14 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- BuildRequires gettext-tools-mini instead of gettext-tools: as
+  acl is part of the bootstrap, we want to try to keep the dep
+  chain as small as possible.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Apr 23 09:05:29 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/acl.spec b/acl.spec
index 4fdf90d..a8a01c7 100644
--- a/acl.spec
+++ b/acl.spec
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Patch101:       acl-2.2.52-tests.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
-BuildRequires:  gettext-tools
+BuildRequires:  gettext-tools-mini
 BuildRequires:  libattr-devel
 BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config