diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/sdk.py b/meta/lib/oe/sdk.py
index dbfa5a2d5c..f89382cd03 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/sdk.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/sdk.py
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ class Sdk(object, metaclass=ABCMeta):
             generate_locale_archive(self.d, oe.path.join(self.sdk_host_sysroot, self.sdk_native_path))
             # And now delete the binary locales
             pkgs = fnmatch.filter(pm.list_installed(), "nativesdk-glibc-binary-localedata-*.utf-8")
-            pm.remove(pkgs)
+            pm.remove(pkgs, with_dependencies=False)
         else:
             # No linguas so do nothing
             pass