diff --git a/soem_beckhoff_drivers/manifest.xml b/soem_beckhoff_drivers/manifest.xml
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--- a/soem_beckhoff_drivers/manifest.xml
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-<package>
-  <description brief="soem_beckhoff_drivers">
-
-     soem_beckhoff_drivers contains drivers for the ethercat beckhoff modules to work together with the soem_master package, every module creates the necessary services, dataports and properties for its own functionality.
-
-  </description>
-  <author>Ruben Smits</author>
-  <license>BSD</license>
-  <review status="unreviewed" notes=""/>
-  <url>http://ros.org/wiki/soem_beckhoff_drivers</url>
-  <depend package="soem_core"/>
-  <depend package="soem_master"/>
-  <depend package="rtt"/>
-  <depend package="rtt_rosnode"/>
-
-
-</package>
-
-
diff --git a/soem_master/manifest.xml b/soem_master/manifest.xml
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--- a/soem_master/manifest.xml
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-<package>
-  <description brief="soem_master">
-
-     soem_master contains a C++ wrapper around soem_core, a factory object to register and create drivers and a RTT component that will automatically create the drivers and their services for all the slave for which a driver is known.
-
-  </description>
-  <author>Ruben Smits</author>
-  <license>BSD</license>
-  <review status="unreviewed" notes=""/>
-  <url>http://ros.org/wiki/soem_master</url>
-  <depend package="soem_core"/>
-  <depend package="rtt"/>
-
-</package>
-
-