diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb
index 33b6afe2c7..036aa27b3a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ FILES_${PN}-schemas = "${datadir}/gtk-engines/*.xml"
 
 CFLAGS_prepend = "-DHAVE_ANIMATION "
 
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+
 inherit gnomebase
 
 python populate_packages_prepend() {