diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gconf/gconf-native_2.6.1.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gconf/gconf-native_2.6.1.bb
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index 2ca2dada1e..0000000000
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gconf/gconf-native_2.6.1.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-NOTE = "This is just a dummy package to get packages stop complaining about gconftool-2 \
-        which they are not using anyway... :D"
-
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58"
-
-PR = "r1"
-
-inherit native
-
-do_install() {
-        install -d ${D}${bindir}
-        echo "#!/bin/sh" >${D}${bindir}/gconftool-2
-        chmod a+rx ${D}${bindir}/gconftool-2
-}
-
-NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS = "1"