diff --git a/package/pipewire/Config.in b/package/pipewire/Config.in
index 3bfcf42a81..f038291e87 100644
--- a/package/pipewire/Config.in
+++ b/package/pipewire/Config.in
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PIPEWIRE
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL # pthread_setname_np()
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_5
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_UCM if BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_SEQ if BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_BLUEZ5_UTILS_PLUGINS_AUDIO if BR2_PACKAGE_BLUEZ5_UTILS # runtime
 	help
 	  PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with
diff --git a/package/pipewire/pipewire.mk b/package/pipewire/pipewire.mk
index ecfb6c0ae2..790d9c8d9f 100644
--- a/package/pipewire/pipewire.mk
+++ b/package/pipewire/pipewire.mk
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB),y)
 PIPEWIRE_CONF_OPTS += -Dpipewire-alsa=enabled
 PIPEWIRE_DEPENDENCIES += alsa-lib
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_SEQ)$(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_UCM)$(BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV),yyy)
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV),y)
 PIPEWIRE_CONF_OPTS += -Dalsa=enabled
 else
 PIPEWIRE_CONF_OPTS += -Dalsa=disabled