diff --git a/package/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins.mk b/package/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins.mk
index 5728ebfe37..d23a81c5ee 100644
--- a/package/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins.mk
+++ b/package/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins.mk
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ ALSA_PLUGINS_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--disable-maemo-resource-manager \
 	--with-speex=no
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_UTILS),y)
+ALSA_PLUGINS_DEPENDENCIES += alsa-utils
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSAMPLERATE),y)
 ALSA_PLUGINS_CONF_OPTS += --enable-samplerate
 ALSA_PLUGINS_DEPENDENCIES += libsamplerate
diff --git a/package/bluez-alsa/bluez-alsa.mk b/package/bluez-alsa/bluez-alsa.mk
index 83dfce6177..649810b0ad 100644
--- a/package/bluez-alsa/bluez-alsa.mk
+++ b/package/bluez-alsa/bluez-alsa.mk
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ BLUEZ_ALSA_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--with-alsaplugindir=/usr/lib/alsa-lib \
 	--with-alsaconfdir=/etc/alsa/conf.d
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_PLUGINS),y)
+BLUEZ_ALSA_DEPENDENCIES += alsa-plugins
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_FDK_AAC),y)
 BLUEZ_ALSA_DEPENDENCIES += fdk-aac
 BLUEZ_ALSA_CONF_OPTS += --enable-aac