diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
index f89ab20ca4..e22a1bebb2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 
 PR = "r9"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "perl python tui libunwind libtraceevent"
+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"