diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index 0bc3adca20..1bc8e46b8a 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ KERNEL_CONSOLE ?= "ttyS0"
 KEEPUIMAGE ??= "yes"
 
 IMAGE_LINGUAS ?= "en-us en-gb"
-LIMIT_BUILT_LOCALES ?= "POSIX en_US en_GB"
 ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION ?= "1"
 LOCALE_UTF8_ONLY ?= "0"