diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/fontcache.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/fontcache.bbclass
index 0d496b72dd..6f4978369d 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/fontcache.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/fontcache.bbclass
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "qemu-native"
 inherit qemu
 
 FONT_PACKAGES ??= "${PN}"
+FONT_PACKAGES:class-native = ""
 FONT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS ?= "${MLPREFIX}fontconfig-utils"
 FONTCONFIG_CACHE_DIR ?= "${localstatedir}/cache/fontconfig"
 FONTCONFIG_CACHE_PARAMS ?= "-v"