diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libuser/libuser_0.57.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libuser/libuser_0.57.1.bb
index 2dd3f11bf7..355427f480 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libuser/libuser_0.57.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libuser/libuser_0.57.1.bb
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "be82c6941264d0b4bd04f95fb342ec7d"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a61289867581fa715354a3fafe09c3e481173ce0a2dcb33b04588b6ac13cead5"
 PR = "r1"
 
-DEPENDS = "gettext popt libpam glib-2.0 xz-native docbook-utils-native linuxdoc-tools-native"
+DEPENDS = "popt libpam glib-2.0 xz-native docbook-utils-native linuxdoc-tools-native"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-python"
 
-inherit autotools
+inherit autotools gettext