diff --git a/package/gdk-pixbuf/Config.in b/package/gdk-pixbuf/Config.in
index 05de93416f..aaabae179f 100644
--- a/package/gdk-pixbuf/Config.in
+++ b/package/gdk-pixbuf/Config.in
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_GDK_PIXBUF
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # glib2
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # glib2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT if BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV if !BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
 	help
 	  Gdk-Pixbuf is an image loader and scaler. It uses GObject
diff --git a/package/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.mk b/package/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.mk
index 87775bba1a..8bfb35ddda 100644
--- a/package/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.mk
+++ b/package/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.mk
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ GDK_PIXBUF_DEPENDENCIES += xlib_libX11
 endif
 
 GDK_PIXBUF_DEPENDENCIES += \
-	$(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext) \
 	$(if $(BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE),,libiconv) \
 	host-pkgconf libglib2