diff --git a/app-text/tree/tree-2.0.4.ebuild b/app-text/tree/tree-2.0.4.ebuild
index 75fc979ed4ec9..3bfcf36cde72a 100644
--- a/app-text/tree/tree-2.0.4.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/tree/tree-2.0.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ IUSE=""
 
 S=${WORKDIR}/unix-${P}
 
-RDEPEND=""
-DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="!app-i18n/man-pages-l10n[l10n_fr]"
 
 src_compile() {
 	append-lfs-flags