diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc
index c35504e79c..90bd981571 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,29 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderApplet.h;endline=22;md
                     file://Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkit.h;endline=21;md5=b4fbe9f4a944f1d071dba1d2c76b3351 \
                     file://Source/JavaScriptCore/parser/Parser.h;endline=21;md5=bd69f72183a7af673863f057576e21ee"
 
-DEPENDS += "qtdeclarative qtlocation qtsensors icu ruby-native sqlite3 glib-2.0 gstreamer1.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libxslt"
+DEPENDS += "qtbase qtdeclarative icu ruby-native sqlite3 glib-2.0 libxslt"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gstreamer qtlocation qtsensors"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gstreamer] = ",,gstreamer1.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gstreamer010] = ",,gstreamer gst-plugins-base"
+PACKAGECONFIG[qtlocation] = ",,qtlocation"
+PACKAGECONFIG[qtsensors] = ",,qtsensors"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    # disable gstreamer-1.0 test if it isn't enabled by PACKAGECONFIG
+    sed -e 's/\s\(packagesExist(".*\<gstreamer-1.0\>.*")\)/ OE_GSTREAMER_ENABLED:\1/' -i ${S}/Tools/qmake/mkspecs/features/features.prf
+    # disable gstreamer-0.10 test if it isn't enabled by PACKAGECONFIG
+    sed -e 's/\s\(packagesExist(".*\<gstreamer-0.10\>.*")\)/ OE_GSTREAMER010_ENABLED:\1/' -i ${S}/Tools/qmake/mkspecs/features/features.prf
+    # disable qtlocation test if it isn't enabled by PACKAGECONFIG
+    sed -e 's/\s\(qtHaveModule(positioning)\)/ OE_QTLOCATION_ENABLED:\1/' -i ${S}/Tools/qmake/mkspecs/features/features.prf
+    # disable qtsensors test if it isn't enabled by PACKAGECONFIG
+    sed -e 's/\s\(qtHaveModule(sensors)\)/ OE_QTSENSORS_ENABLED:\1/' -i ${S}/Tools/qmake/mkspecs/features/features.prf
+}
+
+EXTRA_QMAKEVARS_PRE += "${@base_contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'gstreamer', 'CONFIG+=OE_GSTREAMER_ENABLED', '', d)}"
+EXTRA_QMAKEVARS_PRE += "${@base_contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'gstreamer010', 'CONFIG+=OE_GSTREAMER010_ENABLED', '', d)}"
+EXTRA_QMAKEVARS_PRE += "${@base_contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'qtlocation', 'CONFIG+=OE_QTLOCATION_ENABLED', '', d)}"
+EXTRA_QMAKEVARS_PRE += "${@base_contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'qtsensors', 'CONFIG+=OE_QTSENSORS_ENABLED', '', d)}"
 
 # qtwebkit gets terribly big when linking with all debug info, disable by default
 QTWEBKIT_DEBUG = "QMAKE_CFLAGS+=-g0 QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=-g0"