diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/poky-world-exclude.inc b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/poky-world-exclude.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5194ff1430
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/poky-world-exclude.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#
+# Things we exlude fromw world testing within the reference distro
+#
+
+# qwt from meta-qt4, has poky-lsb QA warnings, qt4 for lsb only
+EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD_pn-qwt = "1"
diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
index 76520fbba8..dec3644985 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
@@ -99,3 +99,5 @@ WARN_TO_ERROR_QA = "already-stripped compile-host-path install-host-path \
                     useless-rpaths"
 WARN_QA_remove = "${WARN_TO_ERROR_QA}"
 ERROR_QA_append = " ${WARN_TO_ERROR_QA}"
+
+require conf/distro/include/poky-world-exclude.inc