diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/image.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/image.bbclass
index 378d3bd0d4..dc4ce5c0a9 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/image.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/image.bbclass
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ POPULATE_SDK_POST_TARGET_COMMAND += "rootfs_sysroot_relativelinks"
 
 LICENSE ?= "MIT"
 PACKAGES = ""
-DEPENDS += "${@' '.join(["%s-qemuwrapper-cross" % m for m in d.getVar("MULTILIB_VARIANTS").split()])} qemuwrapper-cross depmodwrapper-cross cross-localedef-native"
+DEPENDS += "depmodwrapper-cross cross-localedef-native"
 RDEPENDS += "${PACKAGE_INSTALL} ${LINGUAS_INSTALL} ${IMAGE_INSTALL_DEBUGFS}"
 RRECOMMENDS += "${PACKAGE_INSTALL_ATTEMPTONLY}"
 PATH:prepend = "${@":".join(all_multilib_tune_values(d, 'STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS').split())}:"
diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index f111466b4c..238cb1ee6e 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ python () {
 }
 
 SDK_RDEPENDS = "${TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK} ${TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK}"
-SDK_DEPENDS = "virtual/fakeroot-native ${SDK_ARCHIVE_DEPENDS} cross-localedef-native nativesdk-qemuwrapper-cross ${@' '.join(["%s-qemuwrapper-cross" % m for m in d.getVar("MULTILIB_VARIANTS").split()])} qemuwrapper-cross"
+SDK_DEPENDS = "virtual/fakeroot-native ${SDK_ARCHIVE_DEPENDS} cross-localedef-native"
 PATH:prepend = "${WORKDIR}/recipe-sysroot/${SDKPATHNATIVE}${bindir}/crossscripts:${@":".join(all_multilib_tune_values(d, 'STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS').split())}:"
 SDK_DEPENDS += "nativesdk-glibc-locale"