diff --git a/meta-xfce/README b/meta-xfce/README
index fa2bab0..88f2332 100644
--- a/meta-xfce/README
+++ b/meta-xfce/README
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ revision: HEAD
 URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
 branch: master
 revision: HEAD
+meta-xfce depends on meta-oe and meta-multimedia in this repository.
+
+To avoid dependencies on meta-multimedia you need to mask recipes by adding
+this to local.conf:
+
+BBMASK = "meta-xfce/recipes-multimedia"
 
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