diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
index 31bc04635d..7629423cb4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ PROVIDES = "virtual/perf"
 inherit linux-kernel-base kernel-arch manpages
 
 # needed for building the tools/perf Python bindings
-inherit ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'scripting', 'python3targetconfig', '', d)}
+inherit ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'scripting', 'python3targetconfig setuptools3', '', d)}
 inherit python3-dir
 export PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR
 
@@ -338,6 +338,10 @@ PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-archive ${PN}-tests ${PN}-perl ${PN}-python"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += "elfutils bash"
+# PN picks up a python3-core RDEPENDS, due to needing setuptool3 as a build
+# dependency, we remove it from the package, as PN-python is where the scripting
+# is packaged.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove = "python3-core"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-archive =+ "bash"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-python =+ "bash python3 python3-modules ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'audit', 'audit-python', '', d)}"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-perl =+ "bash perl perl-modules"