diff --git a/meson.changes b/meson.changes
index 0200b1d..721ed9b 100644
--- a/meson.changes
+++ b/meson.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+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,
+  libqt5-qtbase-devel, mono-core, mono-devel, wxWidgets-devel,
+  pkgconfig(protobuf) and pkgconfig(gtk+-3.0).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 17 20:26:25 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/meson.spec b/meson.spec
index d2acf49..7f81f14 100644
--- a/meson.spec
+++ b/meson.spec
@@ -46,10 +46,6 @@ 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 +53,8 @@ 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.
@@ -84,10 +77,14 @@ Domain Specific Language.
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 
-# Lack of gtest, gmock, gnustep.
-rm -rf "test cases/frameworks/2 gtest" \
-  "test cases/frameworks/3 gmock/"     \
-  "test cases/objc/2 nsstring"
+# Lack of gtest, gmock, gnustep, for the vala test, we'd need gtk3 which causes a build cycle
+# but considering the GNOME stack is the main driver for meson and the GNOME team is maintaining
+# also this build system, we will see issues in GNOME soon enough too
+rm -rf "test cases/frameworks/2 gtest"  \
+       "test cases/frameworks/3 gmock/" \
+       "test cases/frameworks/4 qt"     \
+       "test cases/objc/2 nsstring"     \
+       "test cases/vala/14 target glib version and gresources"
 
 %build
 python3 setup.py build