diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.0.7.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.0.7.bb
index 6cc3b25045..7d8cf17448 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.0.7.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.0.7.bb
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ CFLAGS += "${LDFLAGS}"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemd,--without-systemd,systemd"
 
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'systemd', '', d)}"
+
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "DONTSTRIP=1"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-mount-locking \
                 --enable-ignore-busy --with-openldap=no \