diff --git a/classes/ament.bbclass b/classes/ament.bbclass
index e9f8650..be9359a 100644
--- a/classes/ament.bbclass
+++ b/classes/ament.bbclass
@@ -1,22 +1,3 @@
-# FIXME: My intuition says that it should be enough to depend on ament-cmake-native only
-#        since ament-cmake has runtime dependencies on all other needed ament-cmake-* packages.
-#        Yet in practice all ament-based packages have to depend explicitly on the native
-#        ament-cmake-* packages.
-DEPENDS_append = " \
-    ament-tools-native \
-    ament-cmake-native \
-    ament-cmake-export-definitions-native \
-    ament-cmake-export-dependencies-native \
-    ament-cmake-export-include-directories-native \
-    ament-cmake-export-interfaces-native \
-    ament-cmake-export-libraries-native \
-    ament-cmake-export-link-flags-native \
-    ament-cmake-libraries-native \
-    ament-cmake-python-native \
-    ament-cmake-target-dependencies-native \
-    ament-cmake-include-directories-native \
-    ament-cmake-test-native \
-"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE_append = " -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DPYTHON_SOABI=cpython-35m-${TUNE_ARCH}-${TARGET_OS}${ARMPKGSFX_EABI}"
 # XXX Without STAGING_DIR_HOST path included, rmw-implementation:do_configure() fails with: