diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-virtual-sensor_git.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-virtual-sensor_git.bb
index 4e72849..e697855 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-virtual-sensor_git.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-virtual-sensor_git.bb
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@
 inherit meson pkgconfig
 inherit systemd
 
-DEPENDS += "sdbusplus"
-DEPENDS += "phosphor-dbus-interfaces"
-DEPENDS += "sdeventplus"
-DEPENDS += "phosphor-logging"
-DEPENDS += "nlohmann-json"
-DEPENDS += "exprtk"
+DEPENDS:append = "\
+    exprtk \
+    nlohmann-json \
+    phosphor-dbus-interfaces \
+    phosphor-logging \
+    sdbusplus \
+"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-virtual-sensor.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
 SRCREV = "e667239d5a57ee3599c6378839e7858a545ae275"