diff --git a/gdcm.spec b/gdcm.spec
index 177436b..b32816a 100644
--- a/gdcm.spec
+++ b/gdcm.spec
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Patch5: gdcm-0005-support-vtk6.patch
 
 BuildRequires:	CharLS-devel >= 1.0
 BuildRequires:	cmake
-BuildRequires:	doxygen-latex
+#BuildRequires:	doxygen-latex
 BuildRequires:	expat-devel
 BuildRequires:	fontconfig-devel
 #BuildRequires:	graphviz
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ BuildRequires:	mysql-devel
 BuildRequires:	openssl-devel
 BuildRequires:	openjpeg-devel
 #BuildRequires:	/usr/bin/pdflatex
-BuildRequires:	poppler-devel
+#BuildRequires:	poppler-devel
 BuildRequires:	python2-devel
 BuildRequires:	postgresql-devel
 BuildRequires:	swig
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ ctest .
 
 %changelog
 * Mon Aug 05 2013 Mario Ceresa <mrceresa AT fedoraproject DOT org> - 2.2.4-4
-- Rebuild for vtk 6
+- Dropped vtk dependencies for now, as there are problems building with it.
 - Fixed bogus dates
 
 * Sat Aug 03 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.4-3