diff --git a/gdal.spec b/gdal.spec
index 3133e61..d1792f7 100644
--- a/gdal.spec
+++ b/gdal.spec
@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ application for all supported formats.
 Summary:        Perl bindings for GDAL
 Group:          Development/Languages/Perl
 Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires:       perl = %{perl_version}
-Requires:       perl-base
+%{perl_requires}
 
 %description -n perl-gdal
 Perl bindings for GDAL - Geo::GDAL, Geo::OGR and Geo::OSR modules.