diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim.inc b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim.inc
index 190953b9dd..b75fcb7696 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim.inc
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ do_install() {
 	# delete the block.
 	sed -i '/the mouse works just fine/,+4d' ${D}/${datadir}/${BPN}/vimrc
     fi
+
+    # FIXME: ideally, Vim's makefiles should be tweaked to not build xxd,
+    # considering xxd (vim-xxd) has its own recipe now
+    rm ${D}${bindir}/xxd
 }
 
 PARALLEL_MAKEINST = ""