diff --git a/scripts/shared-repo-unpack b/scripts/shared-repo-unpack
index 797dec6..d1089cc 100755
--- a/scripts/shared-repo-unpack
+++ b/scripts/shared-repo-unpack
@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ with open(layerjson) as f:
 
 utils.filterrepojson(repos, args.target)
 
-bitbake_setup = False
-
 targetsubdir = args.abworkdir + "/repos"
 needrepos_baseddirs = [r.split('/')[0] for r in needrepos]
 for repo in sorted(repos.keys()):