diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
index 8aa838349d..a34c7dc6ca 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
@@ -114,3 +114,8 @@ IMAGE_FSTYPES = "ext2 cpio.gz"
 #        variants of all compatible machines, but that leads to a lot
 #        more machine configs to maintain long term.
 MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = ""
+
+# The mtrace script included by eglibc is a perl script. This means the system
+# will build perl in case this package is installed. Since we don't care about
+# this script for the purposes of tiny, remove the dependency from here.
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-mtrace_pn-eglibc = ""