diff --git a/package/kodi/Config.in b/package/kodi/Config.in
index 40bee1b898..db6931ed8a 100644
--- a/package/kodi/Config.in
+++ b/package/kodi/Config.in
@@ -72,12 +72,10 @@ menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_KODI
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_BZIP2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CURSES
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PYEXPAT
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_READLINE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SQLITE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SSL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_UNICODEDATA
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_ZLIB
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_READLINE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_SQLITE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_TAGLIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_TINYXML
diff --git a/package/kodi/kodi.mk b/package/kodi/kodi.mk
index 028bf551bc..49728e464b 100644
--- a/package/kodi/kodi.mk
+++ b/package/kodi/kodi.mk
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ KODI_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	openssl \
 	pcre \
 	python \
-	readline \
 	sqlite \
 	taglib \
 	tinyxml \