diff --git a/var/spack/packages/paraview/package.py b/var/spack/packages/paraview/package.py
index b0893237e9a..3bee5a10415 100644
--- a/var/spack/packages/paraview/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/packages/paraview/package.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class Paraview(Package):
 
     depends_on('bzip2')
     depends_on('freetype')
-    depends_on('hdf5') # drags in mpi
+    depends_on('hdf5')
     depends_on('jpeg')
     depends_on('libpng')
     depends_on('libtiff')