diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-support/serialization/cereal_1.2.2.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-support/serialization/cereal_1.2.2.bb
index 8dd1d69..9b60187 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-support/serialization/cereal_1.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-support/serialization/cereal_1.2.2.bb
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-PACKAGES_remove = "${PN}*"
-PACKAGES = "${PN}-dev"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
 
 do_install () {
     install -d ${D}${includedir}/cereal