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diff --git a/documentation/concepts-manual/concepts-manual-concepts.xml b/documentation/concepts-manual/concepts-manual-concepts.xml
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--- a/documentation/concepts-manual/concepts-manual-concepts.xml
+++ b/documentation/concepts-manual/concepts-manual-concepts.xml
@@ -153,67 +153,6 @@
             </para>
         </section>
 
-        <section id='metadata-virtual-providers'>
-            <title>Metadata (Virtual Providers)</title>
-
-            <para>
-                Prior to the build, if you know that several different recipes
-                provide the same functionality, you can use a virtual provider
-                (i.e. <filename>virtual/*</filename>) as a placeholder for the
-                actual provider.
-                The actual provider would be determined at build time.
-                In this case, you should add <filename>virtual/*</filename>
-                to
-                <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-DEPENDS'><filename>DEPENDS</filename></ulink>,
-                rather than listing the specified provider.
-                You would select the actual provider by setting the
-                <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PREFERRED_PROVIDER'><filename>PREFERRED_PROVIDER</filename></ulink>
-                variable (i.e.
-                <filename>PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/*</filename>)
-                in the build's configuration file (e.g.
-                <filename>poky/build/conf/local.conf</filename>).
-                <note>
-                    Any recipe that
-                    <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PROVIDES'><filename>PROVIDES</filename></ulink>
-                    a <filename>virtual/*</filename> item that is ultimately
-                    not selected through
-                    <filename>PREFERRED_PROVIDER</filename> does not get built.
-                    Preventing these recipes from building is usually the
-                    desired behavior since this mechanism's purpose is to
-                    select between mutually exclusive alternative providers.
-                </note>
-            </para>
-
-            <para>
-                The following lists specific examples of virtual providers:
-                <itemizedlist>
-                    <listitem><para>
-                        <filename>virtual/mesa</filename>:
-                        Provides <filename>gbm.pc</filename>.
-                        </para></listitem>
-                    <listitem><para>
-                        <filename>virtual/egl</filename>:
-                        Provides <filename>egl.pc</filename> and possibly
-                        <filename>wayland-egl.pc</filename>.
-                        </para></listitem>
-                    <listitem><para>
-                        <filename>virtual/libgl</filename>:
-                        Provides <filename>gl.pc</filename> (i.e. libGL).
-                        </para></listitem>
-                    <listitem><para>
-                        <filename>virtual/libgles1</filename>:
-                        Provides <filename>glesv1_cm.pc</filename>
-                        (i.e. libGLESv1_CM).
-                        </para></listitem>
-                    <listitem><para>
-                        <filename>virtual/libgles2</filename>:
-                        Provides <filename>glesv2.pc</filename>
-                        (i.e. libGLESv2).
-                        </para></listitem>
-                </itemizedlist>
-            </para>
-        </section>
-
         <section id='concepts-components-classes'>
             <title>Classes</title>
 
@@ -248,8 +187,6 @@
         </section>
     </section>
 
-
-
     <section id="development-concepts">
         <title>Development Concepts</title>