diff --git a/meta/classes/image.bbclass b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
index 11927f39f5..276d0d31f4 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
@@ -176,11 +176,6 @@ IMAGE_LINGUAS ?= "de-de fr-fr en-gb"
 
 LINGUAS_INSTALL ?= "${@" ".join(map(lambda s: "locale-base-%s" % s, d.getVar('IMAGE_LINGUAS').split()))}"
 
-python () {
-    if not bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-charsets libc-locale-code libc-locales', True, False, d):
-        d.setVar('IMAGE_LINGUAS', '')
-}
-
 # Prefer image, but use the fallback files for lookups if the image ones
 # aren't yet available.
 PSEUDO_PASSWD = "${IMAGE_ROOTFS}:${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}"
diff --git a/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass b/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass
index 34c9151ae9..8859dad566 100644
--- a/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass
@@ -37,14 +37,11 @@ python __anonymous () {
                 d.setVar("DEPENDS", depends)
                 d.setVar("GLIBC_INTERNAL_USE_BINARY_LOCALE", "compile")
                 break
-
-    # try to fix disable charsets/locales/locale-code compile fail
-    if bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-charsets libc-locales libc-locale-code', True, False, d):
-        d.setVar('PACKAGE_NO_GCONV', '0')
-    else:
-        d.setVar('PACKAGE_NO_GCONV', '1')
 }
 
+# try to fix disable charsets/locales/locale-code compile fail
+PACKAGE_NO_GCONV ?= "0"
+
 OVERRIDES_append = ":${TARGET_ARCH}-${TARGET_OS}"
 
 locale_base_postinst_ontarget() {
diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 435646a946..1c5369ec98 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ TUNE_ASARGS ??= ""
 TUNE_FEATURES ??= "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-${DEFAULTTUNE}}"
 LIBCEXTENSION ??= ""
 ABIEXTENSION ??= ""
-USE_NLS ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-locale-code', 'yes', 'no', d)}"
+USE_NLS ??= "yes"
 SDKUSE_NLS ??= "yes"
 
 TARGET_ARCH = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ IMAGE_FEATURES += "${EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES}"
 # Native distro features (will always be used for -native, even if they
 # are not enabled for target)
 DISTRO_FEATURES_NATIVE ?= "x11 ipv6 xattr"
-DISTRO_FEATURES_NATIVESDK ?= "x11 libc-charsets libc-locales libc-locale-code"
+DISTRO_FEATURES_NATIVESDK ?= "x11"
 
 # Normally target distro features will not be applied to native builds:
 # Native distro features on this list will use the target feature value
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index 76edff6480..7a0baf3260 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -10,17 +10,8 @@ LOCALE_UTF8_ONLY ?= "0"
 LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT ?= "1"
 LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT_class-nativesdk = "0"
 
-DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT ?= "acl alsa argp bluetooth ext2 irda largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g nfc x11"
-DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_DEFAULT ?= "ipv4 ipv6 libc-backtrace libc-big-macros libc-bsd libc-cxx-tests libc-catgets libc-charsets libc-crypt \
-					libc-crypt-ufc libc-db-aliases libc-envz libc-fcvt libc-fmtmsg libc-fstab libc-ftraverse \
-					libc-getlogin libc-idn libc-inet-anl libc-libm libc-locales libc-locale-code \
-					libc-memusage libc-nsswitch libc-rcmd libc-rtld-debug libc-spawn libc-streams \
-					libc-utmp libc-utmpx libc-wordexp libc-posix-clang-wchar libc-posix-regexp libc-posix-regexp-glibc \
-					libc-posix-wchar-io"
-DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC ?= "${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_DEFAULT}"
-DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_class-nativesdk = "${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_DEFAULT}"
-DISTRO_FEATURES ?= "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT} ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC}"
-
+DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT ?= "acl alsa argp bluetooth ext2 ipv4 ipv6 irda largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g nfc x11"
+DISTRO_FEATURES ?= "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT}"
 IMAGE_FEATURES ?= ""
 
 WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 ?= ""
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-glibc.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-glibc.inc
index abe619aaac..3246490997 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-glibc.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-glibc.inc
@@ -22,17 +22,8 @@ LIBC_DEPENDENCIES = "libsegfault \
 		     glibc-dev \
 		     glibc-utils \
 		     glibc-thread-db \
-		     ${@get_libc_locales_dependencies(d)}"
-
-LIBC_LOCALE_DEPENDENCIES = "\
-	glibc-localedata-i18n \
-	glibc-gconv-ibm850 \
-	glibc-gconv-cp1252 \
-	glibc-gconv-iso8859-1 \
-	glibc-gconv-iso8859-15"
-
-def get_libc_locales_dependencies(d):
-    if bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-charsets libc-locale-code libc-locales', True, False, d):
-        return d.getVar('LIBC_LOCALE_DEPENDENCIES') or ''
-    else:
-        return ''
+		     glibc-localedata-i18n \
+		     glibc-gconv-ibm850 \
+		     glibc-gconv-cp1252 \
+		     glibc-gconv-iso8859-1 \
+		     glibc-gconv-iso8859-15"
diff --git a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
index 010bf6ca6f..0743fefece 100644
--- a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
+++ b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
@@ -24,22 +24,10 @@
 # For a quad-core machine, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4" would
 # be appropriate for example.
 
-
-# glibc configurability is used to reduce minimal image's size.
-# the all supported glibc options are listed in DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC
-# and disabled by default. Uncomment and copy the DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC
-# and DISTRO_FEATURES definitions to local.conf to enable the options.
-#DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC = "ipv6 libc-backtrace libc-big-macros libc-bsd libc-cxx-tests libc-catgets libc-charsets libc-crypt \
-#               libc-crypt-ufc libc-db-aliases libc-envz libc-fcvt libc-fmtmsg libc-fstab libc-ftraverse \
-#               libc-getlogin libc-idn libc-inet libc-inet-anl libc-libm libc-locales libc-locale-code \
-#               libc-memusage libc-nsswitch libc-rcmd libc-rtld-debug libc-spawn libc-streams \
-#               libc-utmp libc-utmpx libc-wordexp libc-posix-clang-wchar libc-posix-regexp libc-posix-regexp-glibc \
-#               libc-posix-wchar-io"
-
-#DISTRO_FEATURES = "alsa bluetooth ext2 irda pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi nfs zeroconf pci ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC}"
+#DISTRO_FEATURES = "alsa bluetooth ext2 irda ipv4 ipv6 pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi nfs zeroconf pci"
 
 # If you want to get an image based on directfb without x11, Please copy this variable to build/conf/local.conf
-#DISTRO_FEATURES = "alsa argp bluetooth ext2 irda largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g directfb ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC}"
+#DISTRO_FEATURES = "alsa argp bluetooth ext2 irda ipv4 ipv6 largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g directfb"
 
 # ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION controls the generation of binary locale
 # packages at build time using qemu-native. Disabling it (by setting it to 0)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index 6305f553b4..3c2440db0e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ EXTRA_OEMESON_append_class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('GTKDOC_ENABLED', 'Tr
 # meson's python configuration pokes into python3 configuration, so this provides the native config to it.
 unset _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME
 
-REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES_libc-glibc = "${@'libc-charsets libc-locale-code libc-locales' if bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ptest', True, False, d) else ''}"
-
 S = "${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "system-pcre libmount"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.29.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.29.bb
index beddbffee2..bd8aa6d503 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.29.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.29.bb
@@ -89,12 +89,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-kernel=${OLDEST_KERNEL} \
                 --enable-stackguard-randomization \
                 --disable-crypt \
                 --with-default-link \
+                --enable-nscd \
                 ${GLIBCPIE} \
                 ${GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "${@get_libc_fpu_setting(bb, d)}"
-EXTRA_OECONF += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-inet-anl', '--enable-nscd', '--disable-nscd', d)}"
-
 
 do_patch_append() {
     bb.build.exec_func('do_fix_readlib_c', d)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb
index 0e2461154b..62643bc764 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig binconfig-disabled ptest distro_features_check
 
 inherit ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'python3native', '', d)}
 
-REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES_libc-glibc = "${@'libc-charsets libc-locale-code libc-locales' if bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ptest', True, False, d) else ''}"
-
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'libgcc python3-core python3-logging python3-shell  python3-stringold python3-threading python3-unittest ${PN}-python', '', d)}"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-python += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'python3-core', '', d)}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.19.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.19.bb
index 9972762b4e..7d59d93a81 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.19.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.19.bb
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://disable-hardcoded-configs.patch"
 
 inherit autotools texinfo distro_features_check
 
-REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES_libc-glibc = "libc-charsets libc-locale-code libc-locales"
-
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-x"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.6.0.bb
index 5e4ca94868..3b62ed9962 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.6.0.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9936aa8009438ce185bea2694a997fc1"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ded4c9f73731cd48fec3b6bdaccce896473b6d8e337e9612e16cf1431bb1169d"
 
 # http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27299
-CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-posix-clang-wchar', 'gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works=yes', '', d)}"
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works=yes"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "ac_cv_path_SORT=${bindir}/sort"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
index 09c37ef8a3..2b20bdcb25 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-audit \
 NSCDOPT = ""
 NSCDOPT_class-native = "--without-nscd"
 NSCDOPT_class-nativesdk = "--without-nscd"
-NSCDOPT_libc-glibc = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-spawn', '--with-nscd', '--without-nscd', d)}"
+NSCDOPT_libc-glibc = "--with-nscd"
           
 PAM_PLUGINS = "libpam-runtime \
                pam-plugin-faildelay \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.6.bb
index 5675cb8cc9..c975395ff8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.6.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require shadow.inc
 
 # Build falsely assumes that if --enable-libpam is set, we don't need to link against
 # libcrypt. This breaks chsh.
-BUILD_LDFLAGS_append_class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-crypt',  '-lcrypt', '', d), '', d)}"
+BUILD_LDFLAGS_append_class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '-lcrypt', '', d)}"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 
