diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index b31408ca95..2f12677a34 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -1844,9 +1844,9 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       variable.
 
    :term:`DEV_PKG_DEPENDENCY`
-      Provides an easy way for recipes to disable or adjust the runtime
-      dependency (:term:`RDEPENDS`) of the ``${PN}-dev`` package on the main
-      (``${PN}``) package, particularly where the main package may be empty.
+      Provides an easy way for recipes to disable or adjust the runtime recommendation
+      (:term:`RRECOMMENDS`) of the ``${PN}-dev`` package on the main
+      (``${PN}``) package.
 
    :term:`DISABLE_STATIC`
       Used in order to disable static linking by default (in order to save