diff --git a/HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaTest/BuildFile.xml b/HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaTest/BuildFile.xml
index 022cd5ecd3e6f..eee6052d26e2d 100644
--- a/HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaTest/BuildFile.xml
+++ b/HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaTest/BuildFile.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 <use name="FWCore/Framework"/>
 <use name="HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaCore"/>
 <use name="HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaInterface"/>
-<!--
-Let the alpaka libraries depend on the main library.
-The possible syntaxes are:
-  <use name="HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaTest" for="alpaka"/>
-  <use name="1" for="alpaka"/>
-  <flags USE_ALPAKA="1"/>
--->
-<use name="HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaTest" for="alpaka"/>
 <flags ALPAKA_BACKENDS="1"/>
 <export>
   <lib name="1"/>
diff --git a/RecoTracker/LSTCore/BuildFile.xml b/RecoTracker/LSTCore/BuildFile.xml
index 8dd2b885bf1b4..2ae780f982c34 100644
--- a/RecoTracker/LSTCore/BuildFile.xml
+++ b/RecoTracker/LSTCore/BuildFile.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 <use name="boost_header"/>
 <use name="root"/>
 <use name="HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaInterface"/>
-<use name="RecoTracker/LSTCore" for="alpaka"/>
 <flags ALPAKA_BACKENDS="1"/>
 <export>
   <lib name="1"/>