diff --git a/meson.changes b/meson.changes
index 0200b1d..7ae65ab 100644
--- a/meson.changes
+++ b/meson.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jun  6 13:08:19 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Make the build footprint smaller to enter ring1: This means we
+  skip a couple tests though. Removed BuildRequires: java-devel,
+  mono-core, mono-devel, wxWidgets-devel and pkgconfig(protobuf).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 17 20:26:25 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/meson.spec b/meson.spec
index d2acf49..c7629bf 100644
--- a/meson.spec
+++ b/meson.spec
@@ -46,10 +46,7 @@ BuildRequires:  gettext
 BuildRequires:  git
 BuildRequires:  gtk-doc
 BuildRequires:  itstool
-BuildRequires:  java-devel
 BuildRequires:  libqt5-qtbase-devel
-BuildRequires:  mono-core
-BuildRequires:  mono-devel
 BuildRequires:  ninja
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  python3 >= 3.4
@@ -57,11 +54,9 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  python3-gobject
 BuildRequires:  python3-setuptools
 BuildRequires:  vala
-BuildRequires:  wxWidgets-devel >= 3.0.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gobject-introspection-1.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gtk+-3.0)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(protobuf)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(zlib)
 Requires:       ninja
 # meson-gui was last used in openSUSE Leap 42.1.