diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
index 7be7d921a1..89abffdeb4 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ TARGET_VENDOR = "-poky"
 LOCALCONF_VERSION = "1"
 LAYER_CONF_VERSION ?= "6"
 
-DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " largefile opengl multiarch wayland"
+# Override these in poky based distros
+POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES = "largefile opengl multiarch wayland"
+POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "packagegroup-core-boot"
+POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = "kernel-module-af-packet"
+
+DISTRO_FEATURES ?= "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT} ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC} ${POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES}"
 
 PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "3.4%"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto_qemux86 ?= "3.8%"
@@ -27,10 +32,6 @@ SDKPATH = "/opt/${DISTRO}/${SDK_VERSION}"
 
 EXTRAOPKGCONFIG = "poky-feed-config-opkg"
 
-# Override these in poky based distros to modify DISTRO_EXTRA_R*
-POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "packagegroup-core-boot"
-POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = "kernel-module-af-packet"
-
 DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += " ${POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
 DISTRO_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += " ${POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"