diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
index f09f7e9a918..d488debdb0e 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/python_setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 inherit python_pep517
 
-DEPENDS += "python3-setuptools-native python3-wheel-native"
+DEPENDS += "python3-setuptools-native"
 
 # This isn't nice, but is the best solutions to ensure clean builds for now.
 # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4732