diff --git a/recipes/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config_git.bb b/recipes/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config_git.bb
index 5fc0a77..b92bdc1 100644
--- a/recipes/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config_git.bb
+++ b/recipes/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config_git.bb
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ SRCREV = "547ae8589afb208d7b44ffe1e0ff7aba466c2ee3"
 PV = "2.0+gitr${SRCPV}"
 PR = "r0"
 
-DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
-DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_shr = "1"
-
 SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config;protocol=git;branch=master"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"