diff --git a/srcpkgs/remhind/patches/pyinotify.patch b/srcpkgs/remhind/patches/pyinotify.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..50a8643ca20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/remhind/patches/pyinotify.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Despite listing pyinotify as a dependency, it isn't actually referenced anywhere.
+
+--- ./setup.cfg.orig	2023-10-10 22:07:11.502935586 -0400
++++ ./setup.cfg	2023-10-10 22:08:15.522236184 -0400
+@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
+ 	aionotify
+ 	icalendar
+ 	python-dateutil
+-	pyinotify
+ 	PyGObject
+ 	toml
+ 	tzlocal
diff --git a/srcpkgs/remhind/patches/xdg.patch b/srcpkgs/remhind/patches/xdg.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..482ad46453a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/remhind/patches/xdg.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+diff -ur remhind-0.1.1.orig/remhind/__main__.py remhind-0.1.1/remhind/__main__.py
+--- remhind-0.1.1.orig/remhind/__main__.py	2023-10-10 21:58:25.792467164 -0400
++++ remhind-0.1.1/remhind/__main__.py	2023-10-10 22:00:58.599184654 -0400
+@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
+ 
+ import gi
+ import toml
+-from xdg import XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME
++from xdg_base_dirs import xdg_config_home, xdg_cache_home
+ 
+ from .monitor import monitor_calendars
+ from .events import check_events, CalendarStore
+@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
+ def main():
+     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="remind event from vdirs")
+     parser.add_argument('-c', '--config', type=pathlib.Path,
+-        default=XDG_CONFIG_HOME / 'remhind' / 'config')
++        default=xdg_config_home() / 'remhind' / 'config')
+     parser.add_argument('-d', '--database', type=pathlib.Path,
+-        default=XDG_CACHE_HOME / 'remhind.db')
++        default=xdg_cache_home() / 'remhind.db')
+     parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action='count', default=0)
+ 
+     asyncio.run(monitor_file_events(parser.parse_args()))
+diff -ur remhind-0.1.1.orig/setup.cfg remhind-0.1.1/setup.cfg
+--- remhind-0.1.1.orig/setup.cfg	2023-10-10 21:58:25.793467169 -0400
++++ remhind-0.1.1/setup.cfg	2023-10-10 22:01:05.341216310 -0400
+@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
+ 	PyGObject
+ 	toml
+ 	tzlocal
+-	xdg
++	xdg-base-dirs
+ 
+ [options.entry_points]
+ console-scripts = 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/remhind/template b/srcpkgs/remhind/template
index 8601b363625..0b1eef7473e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/remhind/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/remhind/template
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Template file for 'remhind'
 pkgname=remhind
 version=0.1.1
-revision=6
+revision=7
 build_style=python3-module
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools python3-gobject-devel python3-cairo-devel"
 depends="python3-icalendar python3-dateutil python3-gobject python3-toml
- python3-tzlocal python3-xdg-variables python3-inotify python3-aionotify libnotify"
+ python3-tzlocal python3-xdg-base-dirs python3-aionotify libnotify"
 checkdepends="${depends} python3-freezegun python3-pytest-xdist"
 short_desc="Notification daemon of events stored in directories"
 maintainer="Stacy Harper <contact@stacyharper.net>"