Drop PRIORITY variable

As discussed on the mailing list, this variable isn't useful and if wanted
would be better implemented by distros using pn-X overrides.

This patch executes:

find . -regex ".*\.\(bb\|inc\)$" | xargs sed -i '/^PRIORITY = ".*"$/d'

against the tree removing the referenced. Thanks to Phil Blundell for
the command.

(From OE-Core rev: d122343362669c683acc4af295971a62cbc823fc)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

119 files changed, 0 insertions, 119 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/apmd/apmd_3.2.2-14.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/apmd/apmd_3.2.2-14.bb
index 50d84ec39a..e80e108ca5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/apmd/apmd_3.2.2-14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/apmd/apmd_3.2.2-14.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ access to battery status information and a set of tools for managing \
 notebook power consumption."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://apenwarr.ca/apmd/"
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                     file://apm.h;firstline=6;endline=18;md5=c9a1f79036ab14aa157e15ed75ffd769"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub_0.97.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub_0.97.bb
index 82b065a7b8..0f297ff3ff 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub_0.97.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub_0.97.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ operating systems. In addition to loading the Linux kernel, it implements the Mu
 standard, which allows for flexible loading of multiple boot images."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/"
 SECTION = "bootloaders"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c93c0550bd3173f4504b2cbd8991e50b \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb
index c602e8c640..f8b2102328 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "PCMCIA-cs configuration files for wireless LAN cards based on Intersil's Prism2/2.5/3 chipset"
 SECTION = "kernel/modules"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "update-modules"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-utils.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-utils.inc
index 2a20506a09..90f2c6ad54 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-utils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-utils.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
                         file://util.c;beginline=1;endline=9;md5=d3b9280851302e5ba34e5fb717489b6d"
 SECTION = "kernel/userland"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 PR = "r4"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/hostap-utils-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/lrzsz/lrzsz_0.12.20.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/lrzsz/lrzsz_0.12.20.bb
index 4cefdb7966..bfd03cc518 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/lrzsz/lrzsz_0.12.20.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/lrzsz/lrzsz_0.12.20.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
                         file://src/lrz.c;beginline=1;endline=10;md5=5276956373ff7d8758837f6399a1045f"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-PRIORITY = "standard"
 DEPENDS = ""
 PR = "r3"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/orinoco/orinoco-conf_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/orinoco/orinoco-conf_1.0.bb
index 98d3aed2ca..57e746bf2b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/orinoco/orinoco-conf_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/orinoco/orinoco-conf_1.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "PCMCIA-cs configuration files for Hermes (Orinoco) wireless LAN cards"
 SECTION = "kernel/modules"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "update-modules"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc
index 410fa5d20e..e65f60774f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Linux Kernel 2.6 Userland Utilities for the PCMCIA Subsystem"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html"
 SECTION = "kernel/userland"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot.inc
index 2be9fc9ebe..7856d9bda3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "U-boot bootloader"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://u-boot.sf.net"
 SECTION = "bootloaders"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/bootloader"
 
 inherit deploy
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb
index 6170362c33..3ec23298c8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Initscript to manage gadget Ethernet"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYING.GPL;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 PR = "r2"
 
 SRC_URI = "file://usb-gether \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_0.91.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_0.91.bb
index c4f40e9dfb..5d605c5294 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_0.91.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_0.91.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Host side USB console utilities."
 DESCRIPTION = "Contains the lsusb utility for inspecting the devices connected to the USB bus."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.linux-usb.org"
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc
index a98ec8fb7c..3b55eb17f1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "x-load bootloader loader"
 SECTION = "bootloaders"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 
 inherit deploy
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc
index 2ab037eaf2..dc7a5aee69 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ AUTHOR = "Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://avahi.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://avahi.org/report"
 SECTION = "network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 # major part is under LGPLv2.1+, but several .dtd, .xsl, initscripts and
 # python scripts are under GPLv2+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez-hcidump_2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez-hcidump_2.0.bb
index 67dd2c6a8d..c271ed208d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez-hcidump_2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez-hcidump_2.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The hcidump tool reads raw HCI data coming from and going to a Bl
 and displays the commands, events and data in a human-readable form."
 
 SECTION = "console"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "bluez4"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez4_4.82.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez4_4.82.bb
index b1c5fd473f..9895006f50 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez4_4.82.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez/bluez4_4.82.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Linux Bluetooth Stack Userland V4"
 DESCRIPTION = "Linux Bluetooth stack V4 userland components.  These include a system configurations, daemons, tools and system libraries."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.bluez.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=12f884d2ae1ff87c09e5b7ccc2c4ca7e \
                     file://COPYING.LIB;md5=fb504b67c50331fc78734fed90fb0e09 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb
index 651a2407b8..f5df005d30 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_1.2.3.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_1.2.3.bb
index d344f3dd83..08468fe2d7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_1.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_1.2.3.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel \
 NFS server and related tools."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://nfs.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_5.8p2.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_5.8p2.bb
index 04d99d97b0..ec33b29681 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_5.8p2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_5.8p2.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine \
 and for executing commands on a remote machine."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://openssh.org"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=bae9a689be41581503bcf95d8fb42c4e"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb
index 3f9f8f05dc..cc51decd84 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                         file://iwevent.c;beginline=59;endline=72;md5=d66a10026d4394f0a5b1c5587bce4537 \
                         file://sample_enc.c;beginline=1;endline=4;md5=838372be07874260b566bae2f6ed33b6"
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 PE = "1"
 PR = "r2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/zeroconf/zeroconf_0.9.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/zeroconf/zeroconf_0.9.bb
index 3fdd9acdca..058220f095 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/zeroconf/zeroconf_0.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/zeroconf/zeroconf_0.9.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4325afd396febcb659c36b49533135d4 \
                     file://zeroconf.c;beginline=1;endline=13;md5=a5bada96e1e34b08eb7446b28e2630b2"
 SECTION = "net"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 PR = "r1"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
index 6091f1b869..8f5313b652 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Miscellaneous files for the base system."
 DESCRIPTION = "The base-files package creates the basic system directory structure and provides a small set of key configuration files for the system."
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 PR = "r69"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://licenses/GPL-2;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
index b697e88221..1334d06964 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb"
 
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 
 export EXTRA_CFLAGS = "${CFLAGS}"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-httpd ${PN}-udhcpd ${PN}-udhcpc ${PN}-syslog ${PN}-mdev"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.12.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.12.bb
index 68ef86439d..52759afe60 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.12.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Cross locale generation tool for eglibc"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.eglibc.org/home"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "LGPL"
 
 LIC_DIR = "${WORKDIR}/${EGLIBC_BRANCH}/libc"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.13.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.13.bb
index 68ef86439d..52759afe60 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.13.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.13.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Cross locale generation tool for eglibc"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.eglibc.org/home"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "LGPL"
 
 LIC_DIR = "${WORKDIR}/${EGLIBC_BRANCH}/libc"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-common.inc b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-common.inc
index a36011a458..d812618978 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-common.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Embedded GLIBC (GNU C Library)"
 DESCRIPTION = "Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) is a variant of the GNU C Library (GLIBC) that is designed to work well on embedded systems. EGLIBC strives to be source and binary compatible with GLIBC. EGLIBC's goals include reduced footprint, configurable components, better support for cross-compilation and cross-testing."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.eglibc.org/home"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "LGPL"
 INC_PR = "r11"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ?= "file://LICENSES;md5=07a394b26e0902b9ffdec03765209770 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
index 127ae231d7..b16ebd3c54 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU C Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833 \
                     file://elf/cache.c;beginline=1;endline=17;md5=926aac25497b1de7d630b4749005d208 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
index 9e535af3bc..ffca817cea 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "SysV init scripts"
 DESCRIPTION = "Initscripts provide the basic system startup initialization scripts for the system.  These scripts include actions such as filesystem mounting, fsck, RTC manipulation and other actions routinely performed at system startup.  In addition, the scripts are also used during system shutdown to reverse the actions performed at startup."
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 PR = "r127"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8c.bb b/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8c.bb
index ac00275337..df6c5b6ceb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8c.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8c.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://cdjpeg.h;endline=12;md5=78fa8dbac547bb5b2a0e6457a6cfe
                     file://djpeg.c;endline=13;md5=ca89254925da06fef47e4b6468233432"
 
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 
 DEPENDS = "libtool-cross"
 DEPENDS_virtclass-native = "libtool-native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
index 118764421e..dfe6a9ad28 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The XML Parser Library allows for manipulation of XML files.  Lib
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=bb90c48926316d9af6e2d70ca7013ade \
                     file://hash.c;beginline=6;endline=15;md5=ce702952bfddd7aee22639a2d6b54136 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
index 35bc7ed946..8fe7e8a861 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are availabl
 additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those   \
 lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands."
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 # GPLv2+ (< 6.0), GPLv3+ (>= 6.0)
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_5.2.bb b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_5.2.bb
index a62345c45e..b054ad7798 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_5.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_5.2.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=03b36fdd84f74b8d8189a202b980b67f"
 
 DEPENDS += "ncurses"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 PR = "r6"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc
index ce133626be..23a8ecb6ac 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ embedded Linux.  It is NOT compatible with binaries linked against glibc."
 
 LICENSE = "LGPL"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 \
                     file://COPYING.LIB.boilerplate;md5=aaddeadcddeb918297e0e4afc52ce46f \
 file://${S}/test/regex/testregex.c;startline=1;endline=31;md5=234efb227d0a40677f895e4a1e26e960"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb b/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb
index 38da4233ea..5bd88cbd86 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "manage symlinks in /etc/rcN.d."
 DESCRIPTION = "update-rc.d is a utilities that allows the management of symlinks to the initscripts in the /etc/rcN.d directory structure."
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "standard"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://update-rc.d;beginline=5;endline=15;md5=148a48321b10eb37c1fa3ee02b940a75"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb
index f7cfa407d4..96dab25f9b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Zlib is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression
 library which is used by many different programs."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://zlib.net/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "Zlib"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://zlib.h;beginline=4;endline=23;md5=084e9c30e4e6272c3b057b13c6467f3d"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb
index 8d76f7bf52..22f884b002 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
 SECTION = "devel"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "bison-native"
 
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.5.bb
index b81efab74e..63f4e7631f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.5.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SECTION = "devel"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "bison-native"
 
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.bb
index aba6a455b0..9068771bc4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ SUMMARY = "A set of tools for CD recording, including cdrecord"
 DESCRIPTION = "A set of tools for CD recording, including cdrecord"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 PR = "r2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.54.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.54.bb
index 6eda411987..334d7d1919 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.54.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.54.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of \
 the insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file. It is useful for \
 reviewing large, complex patch files."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://install-sh;endline=42;md5=b3549726c1022bee09c174c72a0ca4a5"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-utils/docbook-utils-native_0.6.14.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-utils/docbook-utils-native_0.6.14.bb
index c0084b3d91..c2ccef3429 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-utils/docbook-utils-native_0.6.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-utils/docbook-utils-native_0.6.14.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A collection of all the free software tools you need to \
 work on and format DocBook documents."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "openjade-native sgmlspl-native docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-native docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.10.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.10.bb
index dadf2f9312..9b4763bb14 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.10.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "DOS FAT Filesystem Utilities"
 
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://mkdosfs/COPYING;md5=cbe67f08d6883bff587f615f0cc81aa8"
 PR = "r2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
index 9d59e15183..91ec055148 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "DOS FAT Filesystem Utilities"
 
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://mkdosfs/COPYING;md5=cbe67f08d6883bff587f615f0cc81aa8"
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
index 95a38b5956..8ec373546d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "gdb - GNU debugger"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
 LICENSE="GPLv3+"
 SECTION = "devel"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses readline elfutils"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/insserv/insserv_1.14.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/insserv/insserv_1.14.0.bb
index 2d2e75a20a..b3ddec37bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/insserv/insserv_1.14.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/insserv/insserv_1.14.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "This utility reorders the init.d boot scripts based on dependenci
 headers, or in override files included in this package or added in /etc/insserv."
 # There is no known home page for insserv
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc
index 9df79f580b..a4bccd3655 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Utility scripts for internationalizing XML"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.0.bb
index f10dfaff48..2b9fd37eb9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A tool to make device nodes"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 SRC_URI = "file://makedevs.c \
            file://COPYING.patch"
 PR = "r7"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb
index 79cee2e4f5..897fe113d2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "OPKG Package Manager Utilities"
 SECTION = "base"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Opkg"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                     file://opkg.py;beginline=1;endline=18;md5=15917491ad6bf7acc666ca5f7cc1e083"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/patch/patch.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/patch/patch.inc
index cb4984b264..38c3e95d71 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/patch/patch.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/patch/patch.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Tool for applying a patch file"
 DESCRIPTION = "patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing \
 produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more \
 original files, producing patched versions."
-PRIORITY = "standard"
 SECTION = "utils"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/patch/patch-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.12.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.12.3.bb
index 850eef21c2..beb179188b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.12.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.12.3.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "Artistic|GPL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Copying;md5=2b4c6ffbcfcbdee469f02565f253d81a \
                     file://Artistic;md5=f921793d03cc6d63ec4b15e9be8fd3f8"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 # We need gnugrep (for -I)
 DEPENDS = "virtual/db grep-native"
 DEPENDS += "gdbm zlib"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb
index ce3b977114..b0246460c4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Python Imaging Library"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=92;endline=120;md5=c4371af4579f1e489cf881c1443dd4ec"
 DEPENDS = "freetype jpeg tiff"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.bb
index b868ad8cde..35570dc0c6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libcurl python bindings."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ | MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;endline=13;md5=fbfe545b1869617123a08c0983ef17b2 \
                     file://COPYING;md5=3579a9fd0221d49a237aaa33492f988c \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pyrex_0.9.9.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pyrex_0.9.9.bb
index f14a0e615a..1a54051257 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pyrex_0.9.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pyrex_0.9.9.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Pyrex is a language specially designed for writing Python extensi
 It's designed to bridge the gap between the nice, high-level, easy-to-use world of Python \
 and the messy, low-level world of C."
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "Apache-2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=771d472f53f933033f57eeee7808e5bd"
 SRCNAME = "Pyrex"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.0.1.bb
index 0dfa8379ed..1c7939e686 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.0.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A Software Construction Tool"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=8481211ebbeaed9cdc7ad5a3b0c98aaf"
 SRCNAME = "scons"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
index f5ebb5bcdd..25a458ef13 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The Python Programming Language"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.python.org"
 LICENSE = "PSF"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 # bump this on every change in contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.6.py
 INC_PR = "nk2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc
index fdc7e37cf6..fd337df1cb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A file-synchronization tool"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rsync.samba.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://rsync.samba.org/bugzilla.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 # GPLv2+ (<< 3.0.0), GPLv3+ (>= 3.0.0)
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb
index 17c18a4ad8..74d10e4ac5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A file-synchronization tool"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rsync.samba.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://rsync.samba.org/bugzilla.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 # needs to add acl and attr
 DEPENDS = "popt"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/transfig/transfig-native_3.2.5d.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/transfig/transfig-native_3.2.5d.bb
index 62b80234c5..97441c6b6e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/transfig/transfig-native_3.2.5d.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/transfig/transfig-native_3.2.5d.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "This package contains utilities (mainly fig2dev) to \
 handle XFig (Facility for Interactive Generation of figures) files."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "xfig"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://fig2dev/fig2dev.c;endline=16;md5=6bab01e017409cf9ab21d3e953b793f7"
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.8.bb
index 7e58ff8539..3425e8f86d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.8.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU grep utility"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grep/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grep"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8006d9c814277c1bfc4ca22af94b59ee"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_6.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_6.3.bb
index 617433d303..7ba4b8b21a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_6.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_6.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Utility for displaying and setting hard disk parameters"
 DESCRIPTION = "hdparm is a system utility for viewing \
 and manipulating various IDE drive and driver parameters."
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.TXT;md5=910a8a42c962d238619c75fdb78bdb24"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_0.2.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_0.2.2.bb
index f1f66e3ebf..dbc15e10b5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_0.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_0.2.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Transport-Independent RPC library"
 DESCRIPTION = "Libtirpc is a port of Suns Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtirpc/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=183075&atid=903784"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.7.9.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.7.9.bb
index ce899cae69..b736593811 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.7.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.7.9.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/logrotate"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_1.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_1.4.bb
index fd0f12cb78..2b38232f0c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_1.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_1.4.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "LSB support for Poky Linux"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lsb"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 PR = "r1"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbsetup_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbsetup_1.0.bb
index 247f9bc736..4295805047 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbsetup_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbsetup_1.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "auto-setup environment for lsb test"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 PR = "r3"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mailx/mailx_12.5.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mailx/mailx_12.5.bb
index 171e892451..1173b0a7af 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mailx/mailx_12.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mailx/mailx_12.5.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ for MIME, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and S/MIME."
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 PR = "r0"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4202a0a62910cf94f7af8a3436a2a2dd"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_3.32.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_3.32.bb
index b96d1ceae2..26e64e48a7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_3.32.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_3.32.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Linux man-pages"
 DESCRIPTION = "The Linux man-pages project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user programs"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 PR = "r1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6f.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6f.bb
index 57aeb9c75f..873b26ce20 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6f.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man/man_1.6f.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Online documentation tools"
 DESCRIPTION = "A set of documentation tools: man, apropos and whatis"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 PR = "r0"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
index 26eb98f7a0..ce4b3d4896 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = " A compact getty program for virtual consoles only"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingetty/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.4.24.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.4.24.bb
index 7f646f8762..2d2ee52d62 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.4.24.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.4.24.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A sendmail replacement for use in MTAs like mutt"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 DEPENDS = "zlib gnutls"
 PR = "r2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps.inc
index d44e3ec350..ada325762d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Procps contains a set of system utilities that provide system inf
 the /proc filesystem. The package \ includes the programs ps, top, vmstat, w, kill, and skill."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://procps.sf.net"
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM="file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
                   file://COPYING.LIB;md5=6e29c688d912da12b66b73e32b03d812 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc
index 025c2239cc..5a06a14343 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to \
 processes identified by name.  The fuser command identifies the PIDs \
 of processes that are using specified files or filesystems."
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses virtual/libintl"
 
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/psmisc/psmisc-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_0.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_0.2.0.bb
index d520ddf882..d2844c0f82 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_0.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_0.2.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Universal Addresses to RPC Program Number Mapper"
 DESCRIPTION = "The rpcbind utility is a server that converts RPC \
                program numbers into universal addresses."
 SECTION = "console/network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpcbind/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=201237&atid=976751"
 DEPENDS = "libtirpc"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-native_4.1.4.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-native_4.1.4.3.bb
index 2f93e051ba..c4db7eafd5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-native_4.1.4.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-native_4.1.4.3.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Tools to change and administer password and group data"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30580"
 SECTION = "base utils"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "BSD | Artistic"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=08c553a87d4e51bbed50b20e0adcaede \
                     file://src/passwd.c;firstline=8;endline=30;md5=2899a045e90511d0e043b85a7db7e2fe"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb
index 3fd5da99c5..076bc9ae15 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Shadow utils requirements for useradd.bbclass"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30580"
 SECTION = "base utils"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "BSD | Artistic"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://login.defs_shadow-sysroot;md5=25e2f2de4dfc8f966ac5cdfce45cd7d5"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.1.4.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.1.4.3.bb
index 930ef3d04d..5731a268aa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.1.4.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.1.4.3.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Tools to change and administer password and group data"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30580"
 SECTION = "base utils"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "BSD | Artistic"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=08c553a87d4e51bbed50b20e0adcaede \
                     file://src/passwd.c;firstline=8;endline=30;md5=2899a045e90511d0e043b85a7db7e2fe"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.2.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.2.4.bb
index 4257b05837..4bf5737539 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.2.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.2.4.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ extension language.  S-Lang's syntax resembles C, which makes it easy \
 to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to."
 
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "pcre"
 PR = "r5"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc
index 0d9f35eaba..72a7c167cd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Provide limited super user privileges to specific users"
 DESCRIPTION = "Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.sudo.ws"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 SECTION = "admin"
 LICENSE = "ISC & UCB & Zlib"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://doc/LICENSE;md5=54f1b46c2459ecec3d892618eab44302 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
index bbed65c2cd..6e77051a33 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape \
 or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/"
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/tar/tar-${PV}.tar.bz2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb
index d5e334ea6d..1aeb9ffb23 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Security tool that is a wrapper for TCP daemons"
 DESCRIPTION = "Tools for monitoring and filtering incoming requests for tcp \
               services."
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 
 LICENSE = "tcp-wrappers"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_4.13a.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_4.13a.bb
index 0133eabed7..5d78a642bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_4.13a.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_4.13a.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ online information and printed output from a single source file. The \
 GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=adefda309052235aa5d1e99ce7557010"
 PR = "r1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2011g.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2011g.bb
index 49847d314c..1437e4348f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2011g.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2011g.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Timezone data"
 HOMEPAGE = "ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/"
 SECTION = "base"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "PD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://asia;beginline=2;endline=3;md5=06468c0e84ef4d4c97045a4a29b08234"
 DEPENDS = "tzcode-native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.22.1.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.22.1.bb
index 211234e292..8b6314fa06 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.22.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.22.1.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7 \
                     file://gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h;endline=26;md5=5066b71daefeff678494fffa3040aba9"
 
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 DEPENDS = "libpng glib-2.0 jpeg"
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc
index 9e2523a200..886f55d669 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ LICENSE = "LGPLv2 & LGPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
 
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 pango atk jpeg libpng libxext libxcursor \
            gtk-doc-native docbook-utils-native libxrandr libgcrypt \
            libxdamage libxrender libxcomposite cairo gdk-pixbuf"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb
index f128602b43..9609528c23 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605 \
 
 SECTION = "libs"
 PR = "r0"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ gtk-doc-native"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig gnome
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairo.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairo.inc
index c388b566ef..72aaa03620 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairo.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairo.inc
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ Extension."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cairographics.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugs.freedesktop.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "MPL-1 & LGPLv2.1"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 libsm libpng fontconfig libxrender pixman glib-2.0"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/libxsettings-client/libxsettings-client_0.10.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/libxsettings-client/libxsettings-client_0.10.bb
index eac34994e8..37aa94f0ee 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/libxsettings-client/libxsettings-client_0.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/libxsettings-client/libxsettings-client_0.10.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ LICENSE = "MIT-style"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7cfac9d2d4dc3694cc7eb605cf32a69b \
                     file://xsettings-client.h;endline=22;md5=7cfac9d2d4dc3694cc7eb605cf32a69b \
                     file://xsettings-common.h;endline=22;md5=7cfac9d2d4dc3694cc7eb605cf32a69b"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11"
 
 PR = "r4"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
index d85df6bf3f..d3a9576db9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ PR = "r0"
 
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 libsm xcb-util"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.04.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.04.bb
index 81aee0ed0b..3b2d479186 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.04.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.04.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
 
 SECTION = "x11/fonts"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.06.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.06.bb
index 1f023b760b..1b02258521 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.06.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_1.06.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
 
 SECTION = "x11/fonts"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10.bb
index 957350b8ed..f1a826528e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ and bold).  In addition Fontconfig/Xft2 can artificially oblique the \
 serif faces for you: this loses hinting and distorts the faces slightly, \
 but is visibly different than normal and bold, and reasonably pleasing."
 SECTION = "x11/fonts"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "Bitstream_Vera"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT.TXT;md5=27d7484b1e18d0ee4ce538644a3f04be"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/xserver-nodm-init.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/xserver-nodm-init.bb
index fc06d954ec..d48f700f2d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/xserver-nodm-init.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/xserver-nodm-init.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Simple Xserver Init Script (no dm)"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SECTION = "x11"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 PR = "r25"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "dbus-wait sudo"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/dtc/dtc.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/dtc/dtc.inc
index cfed15a4c5..eae46ac2d7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/dtc/dtc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/dtc/dtc.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Device Tree Compiler"
 DESCRIPTION = "The Device Tree Compiler is a tool used to manipulate the Open-Firmware-like device tree used by PowerPC kernels."
 SECTION = "bootloader"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPL2 | BSD"
 DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg_0.10.11.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg_0.10.11.bb
index 6eb5f6c1aa..c3512e1aed 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg_0.10.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg_0.10.11.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "FFmpeg-based GStreamer plug-in"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+ & ( (GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+) | (GPLv3+ & LGPLv3+) )"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                     file://ext/libpostproc/gstpostproc.c;beginline=1;endline=18;md5=5896e445e41681324381f5869ee33d38 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc
index c53d2775bb..203bdbafa2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Fluendo closed-format GStreamer plug-in"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.fluendo.com/resources/source-plugins.php"
 DEPENDS = "gstreamer zlib"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
index 617aab8adb..ad6c3a4cf6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Plugins for GStreamer"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gstreamer"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "gstreamer"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer_0.10.32.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer_0.10.32.bb
index 0957670948..1713755f1f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer_0.10.32.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer_0.10.32.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ It supports a wide range of formats including mp3, ogg, avi, mpeg and quicktime.
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gstreamer"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605 \
                     file://gst/gst.h;beginline=1;endline=21;md5=8e5fe5e87d33a04479fde862e238eaa4"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
index 47a9409fba..175e4947be 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
                         file://include/a52.h;beginline=1;endline=12;md5=81152ceb3562bf20a60d1b6018175dd1"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 PR = "r3"
 
 inherit autotools
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
index 3616f080dc..1e07f7e810 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                         file://COPYRIGHT;md5=5e6279efb87c26c6e5e7a68317a6a87a \
                         file://version.h;beginline=1;endline=8;md5=86ac68b67f054b7afde9e149bbc3fe63"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "zlib"
 PR = "r3"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
index acc9df5501..74c440fd90 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                         file://COPYRIGHT;md5=8e55eb14894e782b84488d5a239bc23d \
                         file://version.h;beginline=1;endline=8;md5=aa07311dd39288d4349f28e1de516454"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "libid3tag"
 PR = "r2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libpng/libpng_1.2.44.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libpng/libpng_1.2.44.bb
index 79131f6dc1..d81a5c1fa2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libpng/libpng_1.2.44.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libpng/libpng_1.2.44.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "PNG Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libpng.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "required"
 LICENSE = "Libpng"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=a294a2bb08b7f25558119edbfd6b2e92 \
                     file://png.h;startline=172;endline=261;md5=3253923f0093658f470e52a06ddcf4e7"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb
index 4aa6f8cc66..1d1a026675 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Library and test program for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video streams"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                     file://include/mpeg2.h;beginline=1;endline=22;md5=ead62602d4638329d3b5b86a55803154"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20101121.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20101121.bb
index 157b3025eb..4a4cb287ed 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20101121.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20101121.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Fixed-point decoder"
 DESCRIPTION = "tremor is a fixed point implementation of the vorbis codec."
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=db1b7a668b2a6f47b2af88fb008ad555 \
                     file://os.h;beginline=3;endline=14;md5=5c0af5e1bedef3ce8178c89f48cd6f1f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
index 2ed1819f6f..fc02fe03e9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Qt is a versatile cross-platform application framework -- this is the embedded version."
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 | GPLv3"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt.nokia.com"
 DEPENDS += "directfb tslib"
 INC_PR = "r26"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-native.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-native.inc
index 0c4d2c7760..c4a58ed849 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-native.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-native.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Native tools for Qt/[X11|Mac|Embedded] version 4.x"
 DEPENDS = "zlib-native dbus-native"
 SECTION = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt.nokia.com"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 | GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.LGPL;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-nativesdk.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-nativesdk.inc
index 19da0cec37..cc83b72cfe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-nativesdk.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-tools-nativesdk.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "SDK tools for Qt/[X11|Mac|Embedded] version 4.x"
 DEPENDS = "zlib-nativesdk dbus-nativesdk libx11-nativesdk qt4-tools-native"
 SECTION = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt.nokia.com"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 | GPLv3"
 
 INC_PR = "r4"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
index 4b3571b618..87145a3671 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ require qt4.inc
 DESCRIPTION = "Qt is a versatile cross-platform application framework -- this is the X11 version."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt.nokia.com"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS += "virtual/libgl virtual/libx11 fontconfig libxft libxext libxrender libxrandr libxcursor"
 
 INC_PR = "r23"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb
index b74ae474bd..46473a04fb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                     file://matchbox-panel/mb-panel.h;endline=10;md5=0b7db28f4b6863fb853d0467e590019a \
                     file://applets/startup/startup.c;endline=22;md5=b0a64fbef3097d79f8264e6907a98f03"
 
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ startup-notification dbus dbus-glib"
 DEPENDS += " ${@base_contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "acpi", "libacpi", "",d)}"
 DEPENDS += " ${@base_contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "apm", "apmd", "",d)}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_0.9.8.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_0.9.8.bb
index 6e41b4e5bd..5eb5480d96 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_0.9.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_0.9.8.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552 \
                     file://src/gseal-gtk-compat.h;endline=21;md5=46922c8691f58d124f9420fe16149ce2"
 
 SECTION = "x11"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ startup-notification libfm"
 DEPENDS_append_poky = " libowl"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/screenshot/screenshot_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/screenshot/screenshot_svn.bb
index 96f5da1b47..66a5c812c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/screenshot/screenshot_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/screenshot/screenshot_svn.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                     file://main.c;endline=9;md5=023e14d6404d0a961eb97cbd011fc141 \
                     file://screenshot-ui.h;endline=9;md5=638d9ffa83e9325a36df224166ed6ad0"
 
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "matchbox-panel-2"
 SRCREV = "292"
 PV = "0.0+svnr${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk.inc b/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk.inc
index 899d360e1a..6a4fef6d0d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2 & LGPLv2+"
 
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 gtk-doc-native"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-36.inc b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-36.inc
index bc4e750a92..bb267d791c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-36.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-36.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.boost.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "boost-jam-native zlib"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "Boost"
 PR = "r4"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-jam-native.inc b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-jam-native.inc
index fbaef1a8ac..e6b2529858 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-jam-native.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-jam-native.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Make system for boost (native)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.boost.org/"
 SECTION = "devel"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "Boost"
 PR = "r0"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb
index 587b6a6c04..4f233a2140 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8e20eece214df8ef953ed5857862150"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.8.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.8.bb
index d7e0829b1e..d5b9930aa0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.8.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION  = "Check Test Framework"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gitorious.org/opensuse/zypper"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 SECTION = "devel"
 
 LICENSE  = "LGPLv2.1+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc b/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc
index 08fe7992fa..128aed328a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from Gn
 HOMEPAGE = "http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/index"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 # helper program gcryptrnd and getrandom are under GPL, rest LGPL
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libgdbus/libgdbus_git.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libgdbus/libgdbus_git.bb
index bd914364b5..67c61cf3dc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libgdbus/libgdbus_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libgdbus/libgdbus_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Library for simple D-Bus integration with GLib"
 DESCRIPTION = "Library for simple D-Bus integration with GLib"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.bluez.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=12f884d2ae1ff87c09e5b7ccc2c4ca7e \
                     file://COPYING.LIB;md5=fb504b67c50331fc78734fed90fb0e09"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libiconv/libiconv_1.11.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libiconv/libiconv_1.11.1.bb
index 28c70c8ae0..186a5a17b8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libiconv/libiconv_1.11.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libiconv/libiconv_1.11.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU libiconv - libiconv is for you if your application needs to s
 multiple character encodings, but that support lacks from your system."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 NOTES = "Needs to be stripped down to: ascii iso8859-1 eucjp iso-2022jp gb utf8"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/libiconv"
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_2.0.bb
index 6858e82c00..0dfcaf63a7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_2.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libnl is a library for applications dealing with netlink sockets."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2b41e13261a330ee784153ecbb6a82bc"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.26.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.26.bb
index 71fb4788a0..404f03fa32 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.26.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.26.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0cd9a07afbeb24026c9b03aecfeba458"
 
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "libxml2 (>=2.6.27)"
 PR = "r0"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.05.bb b/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.05.bb
index 411b744815..c49e94a5e8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.05.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.05.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Lossless data compression library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                     file://src/lzo_init.c;beginline=23;endline=40;md5=924a0f71f5394f6d404be3b458474769"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb b/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb
index e1090d8222..61865b7242 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "GNU Portable Threads"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;beginline=12;endline=15;md5=a48af114a80c222cafd37f24370a77b1"
 PR = "r1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc
index 939df14926..a5d122dc88 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "An Embeddable SQL Database Engine"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.sqlite.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 DEPENDS = "readline ncurses"
 DEPENDS_virtclass-native = ""
 LICENSE = "PD"