diff --git a/ffmpeg.spec b/ffmpeg.spec
index fe44857..151f499 100644
--- a/ffmpeg.spec
+++ b/ffmpeg.spec
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 %bcond upstream_tarball 0
 %bcond all_codecs 0
 
+# Break dependency cycles by disabling certain optional dependencies.
+%bcond bootstrap 0
+
 # If you want to do a build with the upstream source tarball, then set the
 # pkg_suffix to %%nil. We can't handle this with a conditional, as srpm
 # generation would not take it into account.