diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_9.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_9.2.bb
index fee9f055e9..8341dd5af8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_9.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_9.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 require vim.inc
 
-PROVIDES = "xxd"
-
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "ncurses-terminfo-base ${PN}-xxd"
 # Recommend that runtime data is installed along with vim
 RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-syntax ${PN}-help ${PN}-tutor ${PN}-vimrc ${PN}-common"
@@ -9,14 +7,6 @@ RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-syntax ${PN}-help ${PN}-tutor ${PN}-vimrc ${PN}-commo
 PACKAGECONFIG:class-native = ""
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 
-PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-xxd"
-FILES:${PN}-xxd = "${bindir}/xxd"
-RPROVIDES:${PN}-xxd = "xxd"
-
-ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-xxd = "xxd"
-ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[xxd] = "${bindir}/xxd"
-ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[xxd] = "${bindir}/xxd"
-
 # We override the default in security_flags.inc because vim (not vim-tiny!) will abort
 # in many places for _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.  Security flags become part of CC.
 #