diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.25.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.25.bb
index 26d7bf2a6e..0587e77e98 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.25.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.25.bb
@@ -27,11 +27,9 @@ do_configure() {
 	sed -e '/shell gperf/cifeq (,yes)' -i libcap/Makefile
 }
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)} \
-                   ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'xattr', 'attr', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG_class-native ??= ""
 
-PACKAGECONFIG[attr] = "LIBATTR=yes,LIBATTR=no,attr"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "PAM_CAP=yes,PAM_CAP=no,libpam"
 
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = " \