diff --git a/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass b/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
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+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/icons/hicolor"
+
+DEPENDS += "${@['hicolor-icon-theme', '']['${BPN}' == 'hicolor-icon-theme']} gtk-icon-utils-native"
+
+gtk_icon_cache_postinst() {
+if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
+	$INTERCEPT_DIR/postinst_intercept update_icon_cache ${PKG} mlprefix=${MLPREFIX} libdir=${libdir} \
+		base_libdir=${base_libdir}
+else
+
+	# Update the pixbuf loaders in case they haven't been registered yet
+	GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR=${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
+
+	for icondir in /usr/share/icons/* ; do
+		if [ -d $icondir ] ; then
+			gtk-update-icon-cache -fqt  $icondir
+		fi
+	done
+fi
+}
+
+gtk_icon_cache_postrm() {
+if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
+	$INTERCEPT_DIR/postinst_intercept update_icon_cache ${PKG} mlprefix=${MLPREFIX} libdir=${libdir} \
+		base_libdir=${base_libdir}
+else
+	for icondir in /usr/share/icons/* ; do
+		if [ -d $icondir ] ; then
+			gtk-update-icon-cache -qt  $icondir
+		fi
+	done
+fi
+}
+
+python populate_packages_append () {
+    packages = d.getVar('PACKAGES', True).split()
+    pkgdest =  d.getVar('PKGDEST', True)
+    
+    for pkg in packages:
+        icon_dir = '%s/%s/%s/icons' % (pkgdest, pkg, d.getVar('datadir', True))
+        if not os.path.exists(icon_dir):
+            continue
+
+        bb.note("adding hicolor-icon-theme dependency to %s" % pkg)
+        rdepends = ' ' + d.getVar('MLPREFIX', False) + "hicolor-icon-theme"
+        d.appendVar('RDEPENDS_%s' % pkg, rdepends)
+    
+        bb.note("adding gtk-icon-cache postinst and postrm scripts to %s" % pkg)
+        
+        postinst = d.getVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, True)
+        if not postinst:
+            postinst = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+        postinst += d.getVar('gtk_icon_cache_postinst', True)
+        d.setVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, postinst)
+
+        postrm = d.getVar('pkg_postrm_%s' % pkg, True)
+        if not postrm:
+            postrm = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+        postrm += d.getVar('gtk_icon_cache_postrm', True)
+        d.setVar('pkg_postrm_%s' % pkg, postrm)
+}
+