diff --git a/recipes/networkmanager/network-manager-applet_git.bb b/recipes/networkmanager/network-manager-applet_git.bb
index 8493f6d..2f644d7 100644
--- a/recipes/networkmanager/network-manager-applet_git.bb
+++ b/recipes/networkmanager/network-manager-applet_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ LICENSE = "GPL"
 DEPENDS = "libnotify networkmanager dbus-glib libglade gconf gnome-keyring"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "networkmanager"
 
-DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
 DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_angstrom = "1"
 
 SRCREV = "0.8.3.999"
diff --git a/recipes/networkmanager/networkmanager_git.bb b/recipes/networkmanager/networkmanager_git.bb
index 8187787..cb79e78 100644
--- a/recipes/networkmanager/networkmanager_git.bb
+++ b/recipes/networkmanager/networkmanager_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require networkmanager-0.7.inc
 
-DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
 DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_angstrom = "1"
 DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_shr = "1"