diff --git a/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass b/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
index 5908b7f42d..ad1f84f506 100644
--- a/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
@@ -1,7 +1,2 @@
 DEPENDS_prepend = "pkgconfig-native "
 
-PKGCONFIGRDEP = "pkgconfig"
-PKGCONFIGRDEP_virtclass-native = ""
-PKGCONFIGRDEP_virtclass-nativesdk = "nativesdk-pkgconfig"
-
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev += "${PKGCONFIGRDEP}"