diff --git a/libs/renderengine/Android.bp b/libs/renderengine/Android.bp
index 04e24ed..8d19c45 100644
--- a/libs/renderengine/Android.bp
+++ b/libs/renderengine/Android.bp
@@ -111,9 +111,23 @@
     ],
 }
 
+// Used to consolidate and simplify pulling Skia & Skia deps into targets that depend on
+// librenderengine. This allows shared deps to be deduplicated (e.g. Perfetto), which doesn't seem
+// possible if libskia_renderengine is just pulled into librenderengine via whole_static_libs.
+cc_defaults {
+    name: "librenderengine_deps",
+    defaults: ["skia_renderengine_deps"],
+    static_libs: ["libskia_renderengine"],
+}
+
+// Note: if compilation fails when adding librenderengine as a dependency, try adding
+// librenderengine_deps to the defaults field of your dependent target.
 cc_library_static {
     name: "librenderengine",
-    defaults: ["librenderengine_defaults"],
+    defaults: [
+        "librenderengine_defaults",
+        "librenderengine_deps",
+    ],
     double_loadable: true,
     cflags: [
         "-fvisibility=hidden",
@@ -132,7 +146,6 @@
     include_dirs: [
         "external/skia/src/gpu",
     ],
-    whole_static_libs: ["libskia_renderengine"],
     lto: {
         thin: true,
     },