diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8407203..4834d53 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@ add_subdirectory( src )
 add_subdirectory( pics )
 add_subdirectory( cmdline )
 add_subdirectory( cert-updater )
-tde_conditional_add_subdirectory( BUILD_TRANSLATIONS translations )
+
+
+##### other data ################################
+
+tde_conditional_add_project_translations( BUILD_TRANSLATIONS )
 
 
 ##### write configure files
diff --git a/translations/CMakeLists.txt b/translations/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 42b186a..0000000
--- a/translations/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-tde_auto_add_subdirectories()
diff --git a/translations/messages/CMakeLists.txt b/translations/messages/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 75c89f8..0000000
--- a/translations/messages/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-file( GLOB_RECURSE po_files RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} *.po )
-string( REGEX REPLACE "[ \r\n\t]+" ";" _linguas "$ENV{LINGUAS}" )
-
-foreach( _po ${po_files} )
-  get_filename_component( _lang ${_po} NAME_WE )
-  if( "${_linguas}" MATCHES "^;*$" OR ";${_linguas};" MATCHES ";${_lang};" )
-    if( "${_po}" MATCHES "^([^/]*)/.*" )
-      string( REGEX REPLACE "^([^/]*)/.*" "\\1" _component "${_po}" )
-    else( )
-      set( _component "${PROJECT_NAME}" )
-    endif( )
-    tde_create_translation( FILES ${_po} LANG ${_lang} OUTPUT_NAME ${_component} )
-  endif( )
-endforeach( )