diff --git a/manifests/auth.pp b/manifests/auth.pp
index d100ee29df92c3a1832327b62bcdb78713b8460d..b8a159af81b6f4f815754990d4481624ce6a0a26 100644
--- a/manifests/auth.pp
+++ b/manifests/auth.pp
@@ -5,15 +5,11 @@ class aes::auth {
   $auth_home = "/srv/${auth_user}"
   $auth_service = "aes_auth"
 
-  # Sadly, it does not seem like we can only install asio, so we need
-  # to install the Boost as a whole.
-  # It is easiest to install just "boost", even if that is a bit older
-  # than what is available (others require modifying the include path).
-  # It is still enough for the auth server.
+  # Note: We rely on Boost being installed by the broker. It seems Puppet does not like
+  # that we specify "boost" multiple times, even though it would look nice, modularity-wise
+  # since both the auth server and the broker requires boost.
   package {
     [
-	'boost',
-	'boost-devel',
 	'krb5-libs',
 	'krb5-devel',
     ]: