diff --git a/pythia8/riscv64.patch b/pythia8/riscv64.patch
index 471550ab8..2c523af91 100644
--- a/pythia8/riscv64.patch
+++ b/pythia8/riscv64.patch
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
-Index: PKGBUILD
-===================================================================
---- PKGBUILD	(revision 1309223)
-+++ PKGBUILD	(working copy)
-@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
- url="http://home.thep.lu.se/Pythia/"
- license=('GPL')
- depends=('python' 'openmp')
--makedepends=('fastjet' 'hepmc' 'hepmc2' 'lhapdf>=6.2' 'root')
-+makedepends=('fastjet' 'hepmc' 'hepmc2' 'lhapdf>=6.2')
+diff --git PKGBUILD PKGBUILD
+index 1997a0b..2783ad3 100644
+--- PKGBUILD
++++ PKGBUILD
+@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ pkgdesc="High-energy physics events generator"
+ arch=('x86_64')
+ url="https://pythia.org"
+ license=('GPL2')
+-makedepends=('fastjet' 'hepmc' 'hepmc2' 'lhapdf' 'openmp' 'python' 'root' 'zlib')
++makedepends=('fastjet' 'hepmc' 'hepmc2' 'lhapdf' 'openmp' 'python' 'zlib')
  source=("https://pythia.org/download/pythia${_pkgpre}/${_pkgid}.tgz"
          'pythia8.sh'
-         'fix_python_lib_paths.patch')
-@@ -70,9 +70,6 @@
+         'pythia8-python-3.11.patch'
+@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ build() {
          --with-python \
          --with-python-include="/usr/include/python${_pyver}" \
          --with-python-lib="/usr/lib/python${_pyver}" \
@@ -21,13 +21,11 @@ Index: PKGBUILD
          --with-openmp \
          --with-openmp-include=${_inc} \
          --with-openmp-lib=${_lib}
-@@ -83,8 +80,7 @@
-     optdepends=('fastjet: fast jet finding in pp and e+e- collisions'
-                 'hepmc: storing collisions from Monte Carlo'
-                 'hepmc2: storing collisions from Monte Carlo (old interface)'
--                'lhapdf: evaluate PDFs from discretised data files'
--                'root: integrated examples with CERN ROOT data analysis framework')
-+                'lhapdf: evaluate PDFs from discretised data files')
- 
-     cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgid}"
+@@ -97,7 +94,6 @@ package_pythia8() {
+         'hepmc2: storing collisions from Monte Carlo (old interface)'
+         'lhapdf: evaluate PDFs from discretised data files'
+         'python-pythia8: for examples'
+-        'root: integrated examples with CERN ROOT data analysis framework'
+     )
  
+     cd "${_pkgid}"