diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 623be6219b2..c66ad878c4a 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -281,7 +281,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-liba52 = "Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-libacpi = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-libaio = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-libarchive = "Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador@ossystems.com.br>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-libart-lgpl = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-libassuan = "Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-libatomic-ops = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-libbsd = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl/libart_lgpl-2.3.21-crosscompile.patch b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl/libart_lgpl-2.3.21-crosscompile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0261f58c909..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl/libart_lgpl-2.3.21-crosscompile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-Taken from portage
-
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
-
-From e1443c945a4cf67096d8c27721aadd7368382b3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:22:25 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gentoo: use ISO types for fixed type size
-
----
- Makefile.am  |   11 ++---------
- art_config.h |    5 +++++
- configure.in |   10 ----------
- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
- create mode 100644 art_config.h
-
-diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
-index 95952da..6aa2fe3 100644
---- a/Makefile.am
-+++ b/Makefile.am
-@@ -2,13 +2,6 @@ check_PROGRAMS = testart testuta
- 
- bin_SCRIPTS = \
- 	libart2-config
--	
--noinst_SCRIPTS = gen_art_config.sh
--
--BUILT_SOURCES = art_config.h
--
--art_config.h:
--	./gen_art_config.sh > art_config.h
- 
- EXTRA_DIST = 			\
- 	libart.def		\
-@@ -173,5 +166,5 @@ install-data-local: install-ms-lib install-libtool-import-lib
- 
- uninstall-local: uninstall-ms-lib uninstall-libtool-import-lib
- 
--CLEANFILES = $(BUILT_SOURCES) $(bin_SCRIPTS)
--DISTCLEANFILES = $(BUILT_SOURCES) $(bin_SCRIPTS)
-+CLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS)
-+DISTCLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS)
-diff --git a/art_config.h b/art_config.h
-new file mode 100644
-index 0000000..5985f1f
---- a/art_config.h
-+++ b/art_config.h
-@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
-+#include <stdint.h>
-+
-+typedef uint8_t art_u8;
-+typedef uint16_t art_u16;
-+typedef uint32_t art_u32;
-diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
-index e4804f7..ddcac4f 100644
---- a/configure.in
-+++ b/configure.in
-@@ -92,15 +92,6 @@ AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
- 
- AC_C_BIGENDIAN
- 
--AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(char)
--AC_SUBST(ART_SIZEOF_CHAR, $ac_cv_sizeof_char)
--AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(short)
--AC_SUBST(ART_SIZEOF_SHORT, $ac_cv_sizeof_short)
--AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(int)
--AC_SUBST(ART_SIZEOF_INT, $ac_cv_sizeof_int)
--AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long)
--AC_SUBST(ART_SIZEOF_LONG, $ac_cv_sizeof_long)
--
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([
- libart-features.h
- Makefile
-@@ -109,6 +100,5 @@ libart-2.0-uninstalled.pc
- libart-zip])
- 
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([libart-config],[chmod +x libart-config])
--AC_CONFIG_FILES([gen_art_config.sh],[chmod +x gen_art_config.sh])
- 
- AC_OUTPUT
--- 
-1.7.0.4
-
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl_2.3.21.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl_2.3.21.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 95581b297c5..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl_2.3.21.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Library of functions for 2D graphics"
-SECTION = "x11/gnome"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
-PR = "r2"
-
-# can't use gnome.oeclass due to _ in filename
-SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/libart_lgpl/2.3/libart_lgpl-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
-           file://libart_lgpl-2.3.21-crosscompile.patch \
-          "
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "08559ff3c67fd95d57b0c5e91a6b4302"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fdc11e74c10fc9ffe4188537e2b370c0abacca7d89021d4d303afdf7fd7476fa"
-
-inherit autotools pkgconfig
-
-DEPENDS = ""
-
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/*.so.*"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/libart2-config"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/libart_lgpl-${PV}"
