diff --git a/mate-desktop.spec b/mate-desktop.spec
index 8b9bc52..9859640 100644
--- a/mate-desktop.spec
+++ b/mate-desktop.spec
@@ -16,13 +16,8 @@ Patch0:         mate-desktop_enable_gnucat.patch
 License:        GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and MIT
 
 BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
-BuildRequires:  gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel
-BuildRequires:  gtk2-devel
-BuildRequires:  gtk3-devel
-BuildRequires:  gtk-doc
 BuildRequires:  mate-common
 BuildRequires:  mate-doc-utils
-BuildRequires:  pangox-compat-devel
 BuildRequires:  startup-notification-devel
 BuildRequires:  unique-devel
 
@@ -162,6 +157,11 @@ fi
 - add better font rendering settings to gsettings.override file
 - use mate-control-center-filesystem instead of control-center-filesystem
 - as runtime require
+- clean up BRs, most of them are already called
+- remove BR gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel
+- remove BRs gtk2-devel and gtk3-devel
+- remove BR gtk-doc
+- remove BR pangox-compat-devel
 
 * Sun Jul 28 2013 Dan Mashal <dan.mashal@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-10
 - Undo obsolete consolekit RHBZ 989208