diff --git a/rubygem-Ascii85.spec b/rubygem-Ascii85.spec
index 3022d8d..bc0afce 100644
--- a/rubygem-Ascii85.spec
+++ b/rubygem-Ascii85.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,4 @@
 %global gem_name Ascii85
-%if 0%{?rhel} == 6
-%global gem_dir %(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem::dir' 2>/dev/null)
-%global gem_docdir %{gem_dir}/doc/%{gem_name}-%{version}
-%global gem_cache %{gem_dir}/cache/%{gem_name}-%{version}.gem
-%global gem_spec %{gem_dir}/specifications/%{gem_name}-%{version}.gemspec
-%global gem_instdir %{gem_dir}/gems/%{gem_name}-%{version}
-%endif
 
 Summary: Methods to encode/decode Adobe's binary-to-text encoding of the same name
 Name: rubygem-%{gem_name}
@@ -18,17 +11,8 @@ Source0: http://rubygems.org/downloads/%{gem_name}-%{version}.gem
 #retrieved from http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29377&group_id=7826&atid=30313
 Source1: ascii85.1.pod.tgz 
 
-%if 0%{?rhel} == 6
-Requires: ruby(abi) = 1.8
-%else
-Requires: ruby(release)
-%endif
-%if 0%{?fedora}
 BuildRequires: rubygems-devel
-%endif
-BuildRequires: rubygems
 BuildArch: noarch
-Provides: rubygem(%{gem_name}) = %{version}
 BuildRequires: %{_bindir}/pod2man
 BuildRequires: rubygem(minitest)
 %description