diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index a103e7b738..5c738dbf2a 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ PACKAGES = ""
 # SDK processing context.  This class happens to be common to these usages.
 SPDX_MULTILIB_SSTATE_ARCHS = "${@all_multilib_tune_values(d, 'SSTATE_ARCHS')}"
 
-inherit image-postinst-intercepts image-artifact-names
+inherit image-postinst-intercepts image-artifact-names nopackages
 
 # Wildcards specifying complementary packages to install for every package that has been explicitly
 # installed into the rootfs