diff --git a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
index 0e50ec7a444..aaceb84119b 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
@@ -816,7 +816,6 @@ the OpenCV-Python library.")
            libpng
            (librsvg-for-system)
            libtiff
-           libxml2
            libwebp
            matio
            openexr