diff --git a/srcpkgs/boost/template b/srcpkgs/boost/template
index 957f1989195..ca40538f493 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/boost/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/boost/template
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'boost'
 pkgname=boost
 version=1.83.0
-revision=3
+revision=4
 build_style=meta
-hostmakedepends="which bzip2-devel icu-devel python3-devel pkg-config openmpi"
-makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel icu-devel python3-devel liblzma-devel
- libzstd-devel openmpi-devel"
+hostmakedepends="which bzip2-devel icu-devel python3-devel pkg-config"
+makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel icu-devel python3-devel liblzma-devel libzstd-devel"
 checkdepends="openssl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel"
 short_desc="Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"
 maintainer="John <me@johnnynator.dev>"
@@ -43,13 +42,13 @@ subpackages="libboost_program_options libboost_math_c99f
  libboost_stacktrace_basic libboost_stacktrace_noop
  libboost_iostreams libboost_filesystem libboost_url
  libboost_chrono libboost_math_tr1f libboost_wave
- libboost_graph libboost_graph_parallel libboost_locale libboost_regex
+ libboost_graph libboost_locale libboost_regex
  libboost_fiber libboost_type_erasure libboost_coroutine
  libboost_atomic libboost_prg_exec_monitor libboost_math_c99
  boost-python3 libboost_log_setup boost-devel libboost_json
  libboost_timer libboost_system libboost_unit_test_framework
  libboost_serialization libboost_math_tr1 boost-build
- libboost_contract libboost_nowide libboost_mpi libboost_mpi-python3
+ libboost_contract libboost_nowide
  libboost_date_time libboost_log libboost_random
  libboost_thread libboost_container
  libboost_wserialization libboost_context"
@@ -88,6 +87,14 @@ case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
 	ppc*)     _arch=power;    _abi=sysv  ;;
 esac
 
+case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+	x86_64*|aarch64*|ppc64*|riscv64*)
+		hostmakedepends+=" openmpi"
+		makedepends+=" openmpi-devel"
+		subpackages+=" libboost_mpi libboost_mpi-python3 libboost_graph_parallel"
+		;;
+esac
+
 do_build() {
 	# bootstrap.sh will reset CXX and CXXFLAGS (L229)
 	./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=gcc \