diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
index 46869aa09f..369b3d5ae0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require qt4.inc
 DESCRIPTION = "Qt is a versatile cross-platform application framework -- this is the X11 version."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt-project.org/"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
-DEPENDS += "virtual/libgl virtual/libx11 fontconfig libxft libxext libxrender libxrandr libxcursor icu"
+DEPENDS += "virtual/libgl virtual/libx11 fontconfig libxft libxext libxrender libxrandr libxcursor"
 PROVIDES += "qt4-x11"
 QT4DEPENDS = ""
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
index 2944acf89f..3e2958efbe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 inherit qmake_base
 
-DEPENDS += "qt4-tools-native freetype jpeg libpng zlib dbus openssl glib-2.0 gstreamer gst-plugins-base sqlite3 tiff"
+DEPENDS += "qt4-tools-native freetype jpeg libpng zlib dbus openssl glib-2.0 gstreamer gst-plugins-base sqlite3 tiff icu"
 DEPENDS += "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pulseaudio', 'pulseaudio', '', d)}"
 
 require qt4_arch.inc