diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
index 11fa917649..058f887b86 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
@@ -14,10 +14,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "python tui libunwind libtraceevent"
 PACKAGECONFIG[dwarf] = ",NO_DWARF=1"
 PACKAGECONFIG[perl] = ",NO_LIBPERL=1,perl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[python] = ",NO_LIBPYTHON=1,python3 python3-setuptools-native"
-# gui support was added with kernel 3.6.35
-# since 3.10 libnewt was replaced by slang
-# to cover a wide range of kernel we add both dependencies
-PACKAGECONFIG[tui] = ",NO_NEWT=1,libnewt slang"
+PACKAGECONFIG[tui] = ",NO_SLANG=1,slang"
 PACKAGECONFIG[libunwind] = ",NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1,libunwind"
 PACKAGECONFIG[libnuma] = ",NO_LIBNUMA=1"
 PACKAGECONFIG[bfd] = ",NO_LIBBFD=1"