diff --git a/development/codespell/README b/development/codespell/README
index 6c714b66f2..cdbc979cec 100644
--- a/development/codespell/README
+++ b/development/codespell/README
@@ -3,7 +3,3 @@ codespell (spell checker for source code)
 codespell fixes common misspellings in text files. It's designed
 primarily for checking misspelled words in source code, but it can be
 used with other files as well.
-
-Optional dependency: python-chardet. This is required for codespell's
--e option. Unless you deal with files that are not ASCII, ISO-8859-1,
-or UTF-8, you probably don't need the -e option.
diff --git a/libraries/html5lib/README b/libraries/html5lib/README
index e97c619b21..a38654faac 100644
--- a/libraries/html5lib/README
+++ b/libraries/html5lib/README
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ Output is to a tree structure; the current release supports output
 to DOM, ElementTree and lxml tree formats as well as a simple
 custom format.
 
-Optional: datrie, python-chardet, lxml and genshi
+Optional: datrie, lxml, and genshi
diff --git a/multimedia/gaupol/README b/multimedia/gaupol/README
index 11ade37ac7..3129a19804 100644
--- a/multimedia/gaupol/README
+++ b/multimedia/gaupol/README
@@ -17,7 +17,4 @@ Optional dependencies are:
 - iso-codes, if available, will be used to translate script, language and 
   country names.
 
-- Universal Encoding Detector is required for character encoding 
-  auto-detection. (python-chardet)
-
 - MPlayer or VLC is recommended for preview.
diff --git a/python/css-parser/README b/python/css-parser/README
index 5cf85ef683..bb43f46c8c 100644
--- a/python/css-parser/README
+++ b/python/css-parser/README
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets.
 
-Optional dependencies: python3, python-chardet and gdata.
+Optional dependency: gdata.
diff --git a/python/cssutils/README b/python/cssutils/README
index 7fd1da7d4f..ae13134e4d 100644
--- a/python/cssutils/README
+++ b/python/cssutils/README
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
 A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets.
 
-Optional dependencies: python3, python-chardet and gdata.
-
-Note: To install the python 3 bindings pass PYTHON3="yes" to
-the slackbuild
-
-  # PYTHON3="yes" ./cssutils.slackBuild
+Optional dependency: gdata
diff --git a/python/html5-parser/README b/python/html5-parser/README
index 7c3648de65..af00661035 100644
--- a/python/html5-parser/README
+++ b/python/html5-parser/README
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
 Fast C based HTML 5 parsing for python.
-
-Optional dependency: python-chardet