diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-vfs/gnome-vfs_2.24.4.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-vfs/gnome-vfs_2.24.4.bb
index 57bbc133bb..535006b40d 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-vfs/gnome-vfs_2.24.4.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-vfs/gnome-vfs_2.24.4.bb
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ SRC_URI += " \
 SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "a05fab03eeef10a47dd156b758982f2e"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "62de64b5b804eb04104ff98fcd6a8b7276d510a49fbd9c0feb568f8996444faa"
 
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'zeroconf', 'avahi', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[avahi] = "--enable-avahi,--disable-avahi,avahi"
+
 EXTRA_OECONF = " --disable-hal \
                  --disable-openssl \
                  --disable-samba \