base-easier-add-basedepends.patch

diff --git i/meta/classes/base.bbclass w/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index d68ffbe..b3191a5 100644
--- i/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ w/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -60,25 +60,17 @@ oe_runmake() {
 }
 
 
-def base_dep_prepend(d):
-    #
-    # Ideally this will check a flag so we will operate properly in
-    # the case where host == build == target, for now we don't work in
-    # that case though.
-    #
-
-    deps = ""
-    # INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS doesn't apply to the patch command.  Whether or  not
-    # we need that built is the responsibility of the patch function / class, not
-    # the application.
-    if not d.getVar('INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS', False):
-        if (d.getVar('HOST_SYS', True) != d.getVar('BUILD_SYS', True)):
-            deps += " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}compilerlibs virtual/libc "
-    return deps
+TOOLCHAIN_BASEDEPENDS = "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}compilerlibs virtual/libc"
 
-BASEDEPENDS = "${@base_dep_prepend(d)}"
+def toolchain_basedepends(d):
+    if d.getVar('HOST_SYS', True) != d.getVar('BUILD_SYS', True):
+        return d.getVar("TOOLCHAIN_BASEDEPENDS", True)
+    else:
+        return ""
 
-DEPENDS_prepend="${BASEDEPENDS} "
+INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS ?= ""
+BASEDEPENDS = "${@toolchain_basedepends(d)}"
+DEPENDS_prepend = "${@'${BASEDEPENDS} ' if not bb.utils.to_boolean('${INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS}') else ''}"
 
 FILESPATH = "${@base_set_filespath(["${FILE_DIRNAME}/${BP}", "${FILE_DIRNAME}/${BPN}", "${FILE_DIRNAME}/files"], d)}"
 # THISDIR only works properly with imediate expansion as it has to run