diff --git a/dynamic-layers/freescale-distro/recipes-fsl/packagegroups/packagegroup-fsl-tools-testapps.bbappend b/dynamic-layers/freescale-distro/recipes-fsl/packagegroups/packagegroup-fsl-tools-testapps.bbappend
index 59e3c47..d57d6a0 100644
--- a/dynamic-layers/freescale-distro/recipes-fsl/packagegroups/packagegroup-fsl-tools-testapps.bbappend
+++ b/dynamic-layers/freescale-distro/recipes-fsl/packagegroups/packagegroup-fsl-tools-testapps.bbappend
@@ -34,3 +34,6 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
 	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'wayland', 'weston-examples', '', d)} \
 	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'wifi', 'hostapd', '', d)} \
 "
+
+# openthread should be provided by ot-daemon_git.bb
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove = "packagegroup-nxp-openthread"