diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
index f09f7e9a91..c7b12e5309 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
@@ -7,7 +7,3 @@
 inherit python_pep517
 
 DEPENDS += "python3-setuptools-native python3-wheel-native"
-
-# This isn't nice, but is the best solutions to ensure clean builds for now.
-# https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4732
-do_configure[cleandirs] = "${PEP517_SOURCE_PATH}/build"