diff --git a/meta/classes/qt4e.bbclass b/meta/classes/qt4e.bbclass
index 05c24efaa1..de2a68d25b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/qt4e.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/qt4e.bbclass
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DEPENDS_prepend = "${@["qt4-embedded ", ""][(d.getVar('PN', True)[:12] == 'qt4-embedded')]}"
+QT4EDEPENDS ?= "qt4-embedded "
+DEPENDS_prepend = "${QT4EDEPENDS}"
 
 inherit qmake2
 
diff --git a/meta/classes/qt4x11.bbclass b/meta/classes/qt4x11.bbclass
index 52190f45c1..b06e15d29e 100644
--- a/meta/classes/qt4x11.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/qt4x11.bbclass
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DEPENDS_prepend = "${@base_contains("PROVIDES", "qt4-x11", "", "qt4-x11 ", d)}"
+QT4DEPENDS ?= "qt4-x11 "
+DEPENDS_prepend = "${QT4DEPENDS}"
 
 inherit qmake2
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
index c060634233..905e2779bb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://qt.nokia.com"
 DEPENDS += "directfb tslib"
 INC_PR = "r49"
 
+QT4EDEPENDS = ""
 QT_BASE_LIB  ?= "libqt-embedded"
 
 # Set necessary variables in the profile
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
index 68b30789bf..404d8b8563 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://qt.nokia.com"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
 DEPENDS += "virtual/libgl virtual/libx11 fontconfig libxft libxext libxrender libxrandr libxcursor"
 PROVIDES += "qt4-x11"
+QT4DEPENDS = ""
 
 INC_PR = "r47"