diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/libgtop/libgtop_2.41.3.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/libgtop/libgtop_2.41.3.bb
index e7b61a7b20..7131078994 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/libgtop/libgtop_2.41.3.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/libgtop/libgtop_2.41.3.bb
@@ -11,4 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "775676df958e2ea2452f7568f28b2ea581063d312773dd5c0b
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "libgtop-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+).tar"
 
-DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libxau"
+DEPENDS = "glib-2.0"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','x11','xauth','',d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[xauth] = ",,libxau"