diff --git a/opendht.pc.in b/opendht.pc.in
index 30dd63937fc09a3750d1b4fd8e24534645b38e67..b9c835caf96003c1da32641558cabf2ac93ba062 100644
--- a/opendht.pc.in
+++ b/opendht.pc.in
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ Description: C++17 Distributed Hash Table library
 Version: @VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lopendht
 Libs.private: @http_parser_lib@ -pthread
-Requires.private: gnutls >= 3.3, nettle >= 2.4@argon2_lib@@jsoncpp_lib@@openssl_lib@
+Requires: gnutls >= 3.3@jsoncpp_lib@@openssl_lib@
+Requires.private: nettle >= 2.4@argon2_lib@
 Cflags: -I${includedir}