diff --git a/package/weston/Config.in b/package/weston/Config.in
index 1a7c27a715..db6a78ee8a 100644
--- a/package/weston/Config.in
+++ b/package/weston/Config.in
@@ -174,6 +174,18 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_WESTON_SCREENSHARE
 	bool "screenshare"
 	default y
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_WESTON_SIMPLE_CLIENTS
+	bool "simple clients"
+	help
+	  Simple clients includes application such as:
+	  damage, dmabuf-feedback, dmabuf-egl, dmabuf-v4l, egl
+
+	  In the target filesystem, simple client program binaries are
+	  prefixed with "weston-simple-".
+
+	  Note: Weston has two sets of clients. See also the weston
+	  "demo clients" option.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_WESTON_DEMO_CLIENTS
 	bool "demo clients"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # pango
@@ -188,6 +200,18 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_WESTON_DEMO_CLIENTS
 	help
 	  This enables the installation of Weston's demo clients.
 
+	  Demo clients includes application such as:
+	  clickdot, confine, content_protection, dnd, editor,
+	  eventdemo, flower, fullscreen, image, multi-resource,
+	  presentation-shm, resizor, scaler, smoke, stacking,
+	  subsurfaces, tablet, transformed...
+
+	  In the target filesystem, demo client program binaries are
+	  prefixed with "weston-".
+
+	  Note: Weston has two sets of clients. See also the weston
+	  "simple clients" option.
+
 comment "demo clients needs an OpenGL ES provider, an OpenEGL-capable Wayland backend and a toolchain w/ wchar, threads, C++, gcc >= 4.9"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4
diff --git a/package/weston/weston.mk b/package/weston/weston.mk
index 5f8d915d5a..6a5c0e57f5 100644
--- a/package/weston/weston.mk
+++ b/package/weston/weston.mk
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ WESTON_CONF_OPTS = \
 	-Dlauncher-libseat=true \
 	-Dtools=calibrator,debug,info,terminal,touch-calibrator
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_WESTON_SIMPLE_CLIENTS),y)
 WESTON_SIMPLE_CLIENTS = \
 	damage \
 	dmabuf-egl \
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_8),y)
 # dmabuf-v4l uses VIDIOC_EXPBUF, only available from 3.8+
 WESTON_SIMPLE_CLIENTS += dmabuf-v4l
 endif
+endif # BR2_PACKAGE_WESTON_SIMPLE_CLIENTS
 
 WESTON_CONF_OPTS += -Dsimple-clients=$(subst $(space),$(comma),$(strip $(WESTON_SIMPLE_CLIENTS)))