diff --git a/dev-python/pymongo-auth-aws/files/pymongo-auth-aws-1.2.0-no-req-text.patch b/dev-python/pymongo-auth-aws/files/pymongo-auth-aws-1.2.0-no-req-text.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dff0fc2..0000000
--- a/dev-python/pymongo-auth-aws/files/pymongo-auth-aws-1.2.0-no-req-text.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- a/pyproject.toml	2020-02-02 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/pyproject.toml	2024-06-26 15:25:36.921786136 +0200
-@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- [build-system]
--requires = ["hatchling>1.24","hatch-requirements-txt>=0.4.1"]
-+requires = ["hatchling>1.24"]
- build-backend = "hatchling.build"
- 
- [project]
-@@ -44,12 +44,6 @@
- path = "pymongo_auth_aws/version.py"
- validate-bump = false
- 
--[tool.hatch.metadata.hooks.requirements_txt]
--files = ["requirements.txt"]
--
--[tool.hatch.metadata.hooks.requirements_txt.optional-dependencies]
--test = ["requirements-test.txt"]
--
- [tool.ruff]
- target-version = "py37"
- line-length = 100
diff --git a/dev-python/pymongo-auth-aws/pymongo-auth-aws-1.2.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pymongo-auth-aws/pymongo-auth-aws-1.2.0.ebuild
index 35dbfa2..059e938 100644
--- a/dev-python/pymongo-auth-aws/pymongo-auth-aws-1.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pymongo-auth-aws/pymongo-auth-aws-1.2.0.ebuild
@@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ BDEPEND="
 	)
 "
 
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-no-req-text.patch"
-)
-
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+	# we do not want hatch-requirements-txt and its ton of NIH deps
+	sed -i -e '/requirements/d' pyproject.toml || die
+}