diff --git a/classes/lxqt.bbclass b/classes/lxqt.bbclass
index ea38557c..54f0066b 100644
--- a/classes/lxqt.bbclass
+++ b/classes/lxqt.bbclass
@@ -7,5 +7,10 @@ DEPENDS += "qtbase"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/lxde/${BPN}.git;protocol=git;branch=master"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
+EXTRA_OECMAKE += " \
+    -DPULL_TRANSLATIONS=Off \
+    -DCLEAN_TRANSLATIONS=Off \
+"
+
 # REVISIT: configure to use only ${libdir}/cmake
 FILES_${PN}-dev += "${datadir}/cmake ${libdir}/cmake"
diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
index b1271aa6..9cf10a4a 100644
--- a/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ DEPENDS += "libconfig"
 SRCREV = "e71ee4c9a6e3a3b579543bb0e6d969b585ff3209"
 PV = "0.2.0"
 
-EXTRA_OECMAKE += " \
-    -DPULL_TRANSLATIONS=Off \
-    -DCLEAN_TRANSLATIONS=Off \
-"
-
 FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/${BPN}/compton.conf.example"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "compton"
diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/liblxqt/liblxqt_git.bb b/recipes-lxqt/liblxqt/liblxqt_git.bb
index 59cb2d09..6b01aa58 100644
--- a/recipes-lxqt/liblxqt/liblxqt_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/liblxqt/liblxqt_git.bb
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ SRCREV = "24c1c943b87ffc4492ca0db1747691534ce3e77e"
 PV = "0.11.0"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE += " \
-    -DPULL_TRANSLATIONS=Off \
-    -DCLEAN_TRANSLATIONS=Off \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR=share \
     -DLXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR=${sysconfdir}/xdg \
 "