diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 5f188613cc..f49aa34807 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -326,7 +326,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-devtools:remove:x86 = "ply"
 
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-extended ="\
     bitwise \
-    ${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "x11 wayland opengl", "boinc-client", "", d)} \
     brotli \
     byacc \
     cmpi-bindings \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.16.16.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.16.16.bb
index 0acd099956..79aaad9d85 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.16.16.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.16.16.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ global warming, discover sources of gravitational waves, and many other types \
 of scientific and mathematical research."
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://boinc.berkeley.edu/"
+PNBLACKLIST[boinc-client] ?= "Needs porting to openssl 3.x"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                     file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6"