diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.5.bb
index 7ec01ecd3f..b7c673be52 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.5.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SECTION = "devel/lib"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6bd2f1386df813a459a0c34fde676fc2"
 
-DEPENDS = "cracklib python3-setuptools-native"
+DEPENDS = "cracklib"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality;branch=master;protocol=https \
     file://0001-Use-setuptools-instead-of-distutils.patch \
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality;branch=master;protocol=htt
 SRCREV = "5490e96a3dd6ed7371435ca5b3ccef98bdb48b5a"
 
 
-inherit autotools-brokensep gettext setuptools3-base
+inherit autotools-brokensep gettext
+inherit_defer ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python3', 'setuptools3-base', '', d)}
 
 do_configure:prepend() {
     cp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/ABOUT-NLS ${AUTOTOOLS_AUXDIR}/
@@ -24,15 +25,13 @@ export PYTHON_DIR
 export BUILD_SYS
 export HOST_SYS
 
-EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-python-rev=${PYTHON_BASEVERSION} \
-                 --with-python-binary=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/python3-native/python3 \
-                 --with-pythonsitedir=${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR} \
-                 --libdir=${libdir} \
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--libdir=${libdir} \
                  --with-securedir=${base_libdir}/security \
 "
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam', '', d)} python3"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--enable-pam,--disable-pam,libpam"
+PACKAGECONFIG[python3] = "--enable-python-bindings --with-python-rev=${PYTHON_BASEVERSION} --with-python-binary=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/python3-native/python3 --with-pythonsitedir=${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR},--disable-python-bindings,python3-setuptools-native"
 
 FILES:${PN} += "${base_libdir}/security/pam_pwquality.so"
 FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${base_libdir}/security/.debug"