diff --git a/macros.nodejs b/macros.nodejs
index 7ce47c7..75393a6 100644
--- a/macros.nodejs
+++ b/macros.nodejs
@@ -22,6 +22,3 @@
 #      `%%nodejs_fixdep frobber '>1.0'` requires frobber > 1.0
 #      `%%nodejs_fixdep -r frobber removes the frobber dep
 %nodejs_fixdep %{_rpmconfigdir}/nodejs-fixdep
-
-# ExclusiveArch listing for dependent packages
-%nodejs_arches %{ix86} x86_64 %{arm}
diff --git a/nodejs.spec b/nodejs.spec
index cd65e18..0d13f5c 100644
--- a/nodejs.spec
+++ b/nodejs.spec
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ cp -p common.gypi %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/node
 * Sun Mar 31 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth@gmail.com> - 0.10.2-1
 - new upstream release 0.10.2
   http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/03/28/node-v0-10-2-stable/
+- remove %%nodejs_arches macro since it will only be useful if it is present in
+  the redhat-rpm-config package
 
 * Fri Mar 22 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth@gmail.com> - 0.10.1-1
 - new upstream release 0.10.1