diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_%.bbappend b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_%.bbappend
index 29d871b05..48d9cea95 100644
--- a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_%.bbappend
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2019, Digi International Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2019-2025, Digi International Inc.
 
 do_install:append() {
 	# We don't use the scalable icons anywhere and they take up over
@@ -7,3 +7,10 @@ do_install:append() {
 }
 
 FILES:${PN}-symbolic:remove = "${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/*/*-symbolic*.svg"
+
+# librsvg-native was needed in previous versions of adwaita-icon-theme, which
+# used gtk-encode-symbolic-svg to create PNG versions of SVG files. This is no
+# longer the case and the dependency can be removed without consequence.
+# In turn, this removes the only dependency with Rust in ccimx6ul/x11 images,
+# reducing build time overhead.
+DEPENDS:remove = "librsvg-native"