diff --git a/podman/redox-base-containerfile b/podman/redox-base-containerfile
index e12c485c..f8223ec3 100644
--- a/podman/redox-base-containerfile
+++ b/podman/redox-base-containerfile
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ RUN apt-get update \
         git \
         git-lfs \
         gobject-introspection \
-        gperf \
         gtk-doc-tools \
         gtk-update-icon-cache \
         help2man \
diff --git a/recipes/web/netsurf/recipe.toml b/recipes/web/netsurf/recipe.toml
index c403fafe..afadba99 100644
--- a/recipes/web/netsurf/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/web/netsurf/recipe.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ dependencies = [
     "liborbital",
     "libiconv"
 ]
+dev-dependencies = [
+    "host:gperf"
+]
 script = """
 DYNAMIC_INIT
 
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/other/gperf/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/other/gperf/recipe.toml
index d15f30a4..6ee5c00b 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/other/gperf/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/dev/other/gperf/recipe.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#TODO compiled but not fully tested
+#TODO Promote
 [source]
 tar = "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gperf/gperf-3.1.tar.gz"
 [build]