diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tasks/task-core-basic.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tasks/task-core-basic.bb
index 8bab0db7af..a810d3785b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tasks/task-core-basic.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tasks/task-core-basic.bb
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ RDEPENDS_task-core-sys-services = "\
     nfs-utils \
     pciutils \
     libpcre \
-    portmap \
     rpcbind \
     sysfsutils \
     tcp-wrappers \