diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "smile"]
-	path = smile
-	url = https://github.com/LukasPietzschmann/smile
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2a4cefc..c9eba1c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 The kinda awesome beamer theme!
 
 ## Using the theme
-Just copy and paste `beamerthemeawesome.sty` into your project, add `\usetheme{awesome}` into your main file and you're good to go :)
+First of all you will need the [smile](https://github.com/LukasPietzschmann/smile) package. If that's available, just copy and paste `beamerthemeawesome.sty` into your project, add `\usetheme{awesome}` into your main file and you're good to go :)
 
 ## Options
 This theme provides some settings you can tweak:
diff --git a/beamerthemeawesome.sty b/beamerthemeawesome.sty
index 3613924..8e7783c 100644
--- a/beamerthemeawesome.sty
+++ b/beamerthemeawesome.sty
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 	pdftitle={\noexpand\inserttitle},
 	pdfauthor={\noexpand\insertauthor},
 	pdfsubject={\noexpand\inserttitle}
-]{smile/smile}
+]{smile}
 
 \RequirePackage{tikz}
 \usetikzlibrary{overlay-beamer-styles, decorations.markings}
diff --git a/smile b/smile
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-Subproject commit 7cfb03765f7cb740812f9de80ee1deb6cd099c01