diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.40.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.40.0.bb
index b9273ac89e..801739170b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.40.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.40.0.bb
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[vala] = "-Dvapi=true,-Dvapi=false"
 PACKAGECONFIG[dhcpcd] = "-Ddhcpcd=${base_sbindir}/dhcpcd,-Ddhcpcd=no,,dhcpcd"
 PACKAGECONFIG[dhclient] = "-Ddhclient=yes,-Ddhclient=no,,dhcp"
 PACKAGECONFIG[concheck] = "-Dconcheck=true,-Dconcheck=false"
+# The following PACKAGECONFIG is used to determine whether NM is managing /etc/resolv.conf itself or not
+PACKAGECONFIG[man-resolv-conf] = ",,"
 
 
 PACKAGES =+ " \
@@ -258,9 +260,9 @@ SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-daemon = "\
 "
 RCONFLICTS:${PN}-daemon += "connman"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-daemon = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','resolv-conf','',d)}"
-ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[resolv-conf] = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','${sysconfdir}/resolv-conf.NetworkManager','',d)}"
-ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[resolv-conf] = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','${sysconfdir}/resolv.conf','',d)}"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-daemon = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','man-resolv-conf','resolv-conf','',d)}"
+ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[resolv-conf] = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','man-resolv-conf','${sysconfdir}/resolv-conf.NetworkManager','',d)}"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[resolv-conf] = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','man-resolv-conf','${sysconfdir}/resolv.conf','',d)}"
 
 
 # The networkmanager package is an empty meta package which weakly depends on all the compiled features.
@@ -285,7 +287,7 @@ do_install:append() {
 
     rm -rf ${D}/run ${D}${localstatedir}/run
 
-    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','true','false',d)}; then
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','man-resolv-conf','true','false',d)}; then
         # For read-only filesystem, do not create links during bootup
         ln -sf ../run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/resolv-conf.NetworkManager