diff --git a/classes/cmake_kf5.bbclass b/classes/cmake_kf5.bbclass
index 2fe914a..7e9f11b 100644
--- a/classes/cmake_kf5.bbclass
+++ b/classes/cmake_kf5.bbclass
@@ -2,7 +2,14 @@ inherit cmake_qt5
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE += " \
     -DOE_KF5_PATH_HOST_ROOT=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}"
-    
+
+DEPENDS += "ecm"
+
+# FIXME: using tags gives us translations, translations require lrelease/lconvert host tools, the ecm recipe can't deal with that yet...
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    rm -rf ${S}/po
+}
+
 # This function is rather offensive right now, but it seems to work
 do_install_prepend() {
     if [ "0" -ne $(find . -name \*.cmake | grep _usr | wc -l) ]; then
diff --git a/recipes-kf5/tier1/karchive.inc b/recipes-kf5/tier1/karchive.inc
index a0d2962..48aa3df 100644
--- a/recipes-kf5/tier1/karchive.inc
+++ b/recipes-kf5/tier1/karchive.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
     "
 PR = "r0"
 
-DEPENDS = "ecm zlib bzip2 xz qtbase"
+DEPENDS = "zlib bzip2 xz qtbase"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://anongit.kde.org/karchive;protocol=git"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"