diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d62b7e6f..d3c51f2a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -52,12 +52,11 @@ Suggests:
 biocViews:
 LinkingTo:
     Rcpp (>= 1.0.0)
-VignetteBuilder: 
+VignetteBuilder:
     knitr
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
 Config/Needs/website:
-    r-lib/pkgdown,
     rnabioco/rbitemplate
 Config/testthat/edition: 3