diff --git a/packages/addons/README.md b/packages/addons/README.md
index 483ae8b630..ed06803427 100644
--- a/packages/addons/README.md
+++ b/packages/addons/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ PKG_SITE="http://www.site.org"
 PKG_URL="http://www.site.org/$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"  # for github see the other packages, prefer tar.xz over .gz
 # PKG_SOURCE_DIR="somename-${PKG_VERSION}*"        # if the folder inside the zip is different to the pkg name
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain curl"                # dependencies that are needed that the addon builds
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="service"                              # service, tools, virtual, driver, driver.remote ...
 PKG_SHORTDESC="Addon name: sort description"       # Addon: is a program that does this and that
 PKG_LONGDESC="Addon name ($PKG_VERSION): detailed description"
diff --git a/packages/devel/popt/package.mk b/packages/devel/popt/package.mk
index f0fee9c12b..9b46219fe7 100644
--- a/packages/devel/popt/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/popt/package.mk
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://rpm5.org/files/popt/"
 PKG_URL="http://rpm5.org/files/popt/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="popt: library for parsing command line options."
 PKG_LONGDESC="The popt library exists essentially for parsing command-line options. It is found superior in many ways when compared to parsing the argv array by hand or using the getopt functions getopt() and getopt_long()."
diff --git a/packages/devel/slang/package.mk b/packages/devel/slang/package.mk
index 828d9bcedb..b3908bbb2d 100644
--- a/packages/devel/slang/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/slang/package.mk
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://s-lang.org/"
 PKG_URL="ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/v2.1/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="slang: multi-platform programmer's library designed to allow a developer to create robust multi-platform software."
 PKG_LONGDESC="S-Lang is a multi-platform programmer's library designed to allow a developer to create robust multi-platform software. It provides facilities required by interactive applications such as display/screen management, keyboard input, keymaps, and so on. The most exciting feature of the library is the slang interpreter that may be easily embedded into a program to make it extensible. While the emphasis has always been on the embedded nature of the interpreter, it may also be used in a stand-alone fashion through the use of slsh, which is part of the S-Lang distribution."
diff --git a/packages/tools/newt/package.mk b/packages/tools/newt/package.mk
index 65e22bcf05..15d1edc354 100644
--- a/packages/tools/newt/package.mk
+++ b/packages/tools/newt/package.mk
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://fedorahosted.org/newt/"
 PKG_URL="https://fedorahosted.org/releases/n/e/newt/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain slang popt"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="tools"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="newt: A programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the S-Lang library."