diff --git a/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass b/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
index a5d642c954..6d205a1473 100644
--- a/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/icons/hicolor"
 
-DEPENDS += "${@['hicolor-icon-theme', '']['${BPN}' == 'hicolor-icon-theme']} virtual/gtk-update-icon-cache-native"
+DEPENDS += "${@['hicolor-icon-theme', '']['${BPN}' == 'hicolor-icon-theme']} gtk-update-icon-cache-native"
 
 #
 # On host, the postinstall MUST return 1 because we do not know if the intercept
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc
index e3a44e69fb..4b665225ac 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/update-alternatives ?= "opkg"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/update-alternatives-native ?= "opkg-native"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libx11 ?= "libx11"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_xf86-video-intel ?= "xf86-video-intel"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/gtk-update-icon-cache-native ?= "gtk-update-icon-cache-native"
 
 #
 # Default virtual runtime providers
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk-update-icon-cache-native_3.4.4.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk-update-icon-cache-native_3.4.4.bb
index ea99c14901..93c30a75b1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk-update-icon-cache-native_3.4.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk-update-icon-cache-native_3.4.4.bb
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "gtk-update-icon-cache built natively"
 DESCRIPTION = "Just gtk-update-icon-cache built from GTK+ natively, for on-host postinst script execution."
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-PROVIDES = "virtual/gtk-update-icon-cache-native"
-
 DEPENDS = "gdk-pixbuf-native"
 
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2 & LGPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"