diff --git a/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc b/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc
index 93b2455..b1b3885 100644
--- a/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc
+++ b/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc
@@ -10,14 +10,6 @@
 
 DISTROOVERRIDES .= ":openbmc-phosphor"
 
-POKYQEMUDEPS = "${@bb.utils.contains("INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE", "GPL-3.0", "", "packagegroup-core-device-devel",d)}"
-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemuarm = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemuarm64 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemumips = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemuppc = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemux86 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemux86-64 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
-
 TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
 
 QEMU_TARGETS ?= "arm aarch64 i386 mips mipsel mips64 mips64el nios2 ppc x86_64"