diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_%.bbappend b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_%.bbappend
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+# Copyright (C) 2019 Digi International.
+
+do_install_append() {
+	# We don't use the scalable icons anywhere and they take up over
+	# 1 MiB in the filesystem, so remove them.
+	rm -f ${D}${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/*/*-symbolic*.svg
+}
+
+FILES_${PN}-symbolic_remove = "${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/*/*-symbolic*.svg"