diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb
index 754689f999..58bf5a553c 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ IMAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-core-boot ${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_BOOTSTRAP}"
 IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic"
 RM_OLD_IMAGE = "1"
 
-DEPENDS = "syslinux syslinux-native parted-native dosfstools-native mtools-native gptfdisk-native"
+DEPENDS = "syslinux syslinux-native dosfstools-native mtools-native gptfdisk-native"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 
diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
index 5ef6f60b89..0bb6252430 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ IMAGE_CMD_wic[vardepsexclude] = "WKS_FULL_PATH WKS_FILES"
 USING_WIC = "${@bb.utils.contains_any('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'wic ' + ' '.join('wic.%s' % c for c in '${CONVERSIONTYPES}'.split()), '1', '', d)}"
 WKS_FILE_CHECKSUM = "${@'${WKS_FULL_PATH}:%s' % os.path.exists('${WKS_FULL_PATH}') if '${USING_WIC}' else ''}"
 do_image_wic[file-checksums] += "${WKS_FILE_CHECKSUM}"
+do_image_wic[depends] += "parted-native:do_populate_sysroot"
 
 python do_write_wks_template () {
     """Write out expanded template contents to WKS_FULL_PATH."""