diff --git a/classes/smalltalk_package.bbclass b/classes/smalltalk_package.bbclass
index 5eb9ca6248..fd73d6551c 100644
--- a/classes/smalltalk_package.bbclass
+++ b/classes/smalltalk_package.bbclass
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 DEPENDS = "smalltalk-native"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "smalltalk"
+GST_PACKAGE_XML ?= "package.xml"
 
 smalltalk_package_do_compile() {
 	gst < /dev/null
-	gst-package --target-directory=. package.xml
+	gst-package --target-directory=. ${GST_PACKAGE_XML}
 }
 
 smalltalk_package_do_install () {