--- media-libs/faac/faac-1.25.ebuild
+++ media-libs/faac/faac-1.25.ebuild
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ IUSE=""
 RDEPEND=">=media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.0
 	media-libs/libmp4v2"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	!<media-libs/faad2-2.0-r3
-	app-text/recode"
+	!<media-libs/faad2-2.0-r3"
 
 S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}
 
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ src_unpack() {
 	cd "${S}"
 
 	epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-external-libmp4v2.patch
-	recode ibmpc..latin1 configure.in
+	sed -i -e "s/.$//" configure.in
 
 	eautoreconf
 	elibtoolize