diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.20.5.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.20.5.bb
index f7ade89ef8..0bd953743e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.20.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.20.5.bb
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 \
 DEPENDS += "gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libcap zlib"
 RPROVIDES:${PN}-pulseaudio += "${PN}-pulse"
 RPROVIDES:${PN}-soup += "${PN}-souphttpsrc"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-soup += "${MLPREFIX}${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'soup2', 'libsoup-2.4', 'libsoup', d)}"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG_SOUP ?= "soup3"
 
@@ -52,13 +53,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[libv4l2]    = "-Dv4l2-libv4l2=enabled,-Dv4l2-libv4l2=disabled,v4l-
 PACKAGECONFIG[mpg123]     = "-Dmpg123=enabled,-Dmpg123=disabled,mpg123"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pulseaudio] = "-Dpulse=enabled,-Dpulse=disabled,pulseaudio"
 PACKAGECONFIG[qt5]        = "-Dqt5=enabled,-Dqt5=disabled,qtbase qtdeclarative qtbase-native ${QT5WAYLANDDEPENDS}"
-# Starting with version 1.20, the GStreamer soup plugin loads libsoup with dlopen()
-# instead of linking to it. And instead of using the default libsoup C headers, it
-# uses its own stub header. Consequently, objdump will not show the libsoup .so as
-# a dependency, and libsoup won't be added to an image. Fix this by setting libsoup
-# as RDEPEND.
-PACKAGECONFIG[soup2] = "-Dsoup=enabled,,libsoup-2.4,libsoup-2.4,,soup3"
-PACKAGECONFIG[soup3] = "-Dsoup=enabled,,libsoup,libsoup,,soup2"
+PACKAGECONFIG[soup2]      = "-Dsoup=enabled,,libsoup-2.4,,,soup3"
+PACKAGECONFIG[soup3]      = "-Dsoup=enabled,,libsoup,,,soup2"
 PACKAGECONFIG[speex]      = "-Dspeex=enabled,-Dspeex=disabled,speex"
 PACKAGECONFIG[rpi]        = "-Drpicamsrc=enabled,-Drpicamsrc=disabled,userland"
 PACKAGECONFIG[taglib]     = "-Dtaglib=enabled,-Dtaglib=disabled,taglib"