diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/packagegroups/packagegroup-xfce-base.bb b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/packagegroups/packagegroup-xfce-base.bb
index 6ddf8ee912..70ef909ef9 100644
--- a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/packagegroups/packagegroup-xfce-base.bb
+++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/packagegroups/packagegroup-xfce-base.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ inherit packagegroup features_check
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
-    packagegroup-core-x11 \
     xfwm4 \
     xfce4-session \
     xfconf \