diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
index d3c0a781e4..81153b3b36 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ ENABLE_WIDEC:class-native = "true"
 
 # Drop native language support. This removes the
 # eglibc->bash->gettext->libc-posix-clang-wchar dependency.
-USE_NLS="no"
+USE_NLS = "no"
 # As we don't have native language support, don't install locales into images
 IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""