diff --git a/recipes/yasnippet.rcp b/recipes/yasnippet.rcp
index 68786b4b..8c1e7c03 100644
--- a/recipes/yasnippet.rcp
+++ b/recipes/yasnippet.rcp
@@ -8,5 +8,4 @@
        ;; only fetch the `snippets' submodule, others have funny
        ;; file names that can cause problems
        ;; see https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/issues/1511
-       :submodule nil
-       :build (("git" "submodule" "update" "--init" "--" "snippets")))
+       :submodule nil)