diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.16.0.bb b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.16.0.bb
index 5214b2ea7e..0bbef847ce 100644
--- a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.16.0.bb
+++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.16.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
 DEPENDS = "libxfce4util perl intltool-native xfce4-dev-tools-native"
 
-inherit xfce gtk-doc gobject-introspection bash-completion
+inherit xfce gtk-doc gobject-introspection bash-completion vala
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "PERL=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}/usr/bin/perl"