diff --git a/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass b/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
index 3bfb8ff895..d0840d59b6 100644
--- a/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ python populate_packages_append () {
 
 		bb.note("adding hicolor-icon-theme dependency to %s" % pkg)	
 		rdepends = bb.data.getVar('RDEPENDS_%s' % pkg, d, 1)
-		rdepends += " hicolor-icon-theme"
+		rdepends = rdepends + ' ' + bb.data.getVar('MLPREFIX', d) + "hicolor-icon-theme"
 		bb.data.setVar('RDEPENDS_%s' % pkg, rdepends, d)
 	
 		bb.note("adding gtk-icon-cache postinst and postrm scripts to %s" % pkg)