diff --git a/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/files/xdg-user-dirs.desktop b/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/files/xdg-user-dirs.desktop
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--- a/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/files/xdg-user-dirs.desktop
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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Type=Application
-Name=User folders update
-Exec=xdg-user-dirs-update
-StartupNotify=false
-NoDisplay=true
-X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
-X-KDE-autostart-phase=1
-
diff --git a/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.15.bb b/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.15.bb
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index b94e0ccd..00000000
--- a/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.15.bb
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-DESCRIPTION = "xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage user directories like the desktop folder and the music folder"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
-
-SRC_URI = " \
-    http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
-    file://xdg-user-dirs.desktop \
-"
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "f5aaf5686ad7d8809a664bfb4566a54d"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "20b4a751f41d0554bce3e0ce5e8d934be98cc62d48f0b90a894c3e1916552786"
-
-inherit autotools gettext
-
-do_install_append () {
-    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart
-    install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/xdg-user-dirs.desktop ${D}${sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart
-}
-
-CONFFILES_${PN} += " \
-    ${sysconfdir}/xdg/user-dirs.conf \
-    ${sysconfdir}/xdg/user-dirs.defaults \
-"