diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf b/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf
index 8e9ee2d67..8c8048b5a 100644
--- a/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf
+++ b/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf
@@ -98,3 +98,11 @@ PACKAGECONFIG:remove:class-target:pn-libarchive   = "bz2 xz lzo zstd acl xattr"
 # when udev support is disabled, so remove it to avoid dragging a bunch of
 # dependencies into the recovery and trustfence initramfs.
 PACKAGECONFIG:remove:class-target:pn-cryptsetup = "udev"
+
+# gstreamer's rsvg plugin is enabled by default in all of our platforms where
+# gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad is used, which is most of them. This plugin depends
+# on librsvg, a small library implemented in Rust. For some of our platforms,
+# it's the only package in our default DEY images that requires bitbake to
+# generate the Rust compiler, which is a lengthy process. Disable the gstreamer
+# rsvg plugin to remove this dependency and the Rust compiler overhead.
+PACKAGECONFIG:remove:pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad = "rsvg"