diff --git a/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf b/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
index 1d7e6cbe57..d90d0cf737 100644
--- a/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
+++ b/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_nativesdk-coreutils = "nativesdk-coreutils"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libopencl1 ?= "opencl-icd-loader"
 PREFERRED_RPROVIDER_virtual-redis ?= "redis"
 
+# We have two providers (polkit/smolkit) for polkit now, continue
+# to use smolkit as the default, as smolkit does only implements a subset
+# of features.
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_polkit ?= "polkit"
+
 SIGGEN_EXCLUDERECIPES_ABISAFE += " \
   fbset-modes \
   gpsd-machine-conf \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smolkit/smolkit.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smolkit/smolkit.bb
index 4bd5f8d03f..4ac9ee69f7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smolkit/smolkit.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smolkit/smolkit.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-SUMMARY = "low-footprint drop-in polkit replacement"
+SUMMARY = "low-footprint polkit replacement"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/bmwcarit/smolkit"
 DESCRIPTION = "\
   Service that implements a subset of polkit's D-Bus interface with a static configuration language. \
@@ -7,21 +7,20 @@ DESCRIPTION = "\
 LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3b83ef96387f14655fc854ddc3c6bd57"
 
-inherit cmake features_check pkgconfig
+inherit cmake pkgconfig
 
 DEPENDS = "\
   rapidjson \
   sdbus-c++ \
 "
 
-CONFLICT_DISTRO_FEATURES = "polkit"
-REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "smolkit"
+PROVIDES += "polkit"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "polkit"
 
-PV = "0.2+git"
+VERSION = "0.3.0"
+PV = "${VERSION}+git"
 
 SRC_URI = "\
-    git://github.com/bmwcarit/${BPN}.git;protocol=https;branch=main \
+    git://github.com/bmwcarit/${BPN}.git;protocol=https;branch=main;tag=v${VERSION} \
 "
 SRCREV = "46bbfd5c922a8d03a534398ee129ded822dfcafe"
-
-S = "${UNPACKDIR}/${BB_GIT_DEFAULT_DESTSUFFIX}"