diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template b/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
index 3af50b80c5..4c62024484 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'rest-devel'.
 #
-depends="glib-devel libsoup-devel libxml2-devel rest"
+noarch=yes
+depends="glib-devel libsoup-devel libxml2-devel rest-${version}_${revision}"
 short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
 long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-
-do_install()
-{
+do_install() {
 	vmove usr/include usr
 	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
 	vmove usr/share usr
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/rest.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/rest/rest.rshlibs
index 046681bb50..6ace088514 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rest/rest.rshlibs
+++ b/srcpkgs/rest/rest.rshlibs
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1
 libsoup-2.4.so.1
 libgio-2.0.so.0
 libgobject-2.0.so.0
-libgthread-2.0.so.0
-librt.so.1
 libglib-2.0.so.0
 libxml2.so.2
 libpthread.so.0
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/template b/srcpkgs/rest/template
index 99fd573c7c..26b9d8d99c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rest/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rest/template
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'rest'
 pkgname=rest
 version=0.7.12
-homepage="http://www.gnome.org"
-distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/0.7/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
+revision=3
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
 build_style=gnu-configure
-revision=2
-makedepends="pkg-config gobject-introspection glib-devel libsoup-devel libsoup-gnome-devel libxml2-devel"
+configure_args="--disable-static"
+makedepends="pkg-config gobject-introspection glib-devel libsoup-devel
+ libsoup-gnome-devel libxml2-devel"
 short_desc="RESTful library"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://www.gnome.org"
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/0.7/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 checksum=16ffa4929078dabfcfac31f9ce942072ebab67e3339ce9f378127457b03baf3a
 long_desc="
  This library has been designed to make it easier to access web services that
@@ -16,6 +19,3 @@ long_desc="
  on Wikipedia [1]. However a reasonable description is that a RESTful service
  should have urls that represent remote objects which methods can then be
  called on."
-
-subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
-