diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index dfef9cac8..6d433a2ef 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -74,14 +74,17 @@ set_package_properties(Threads PROPERTIES TYPE REQUIRED)
 # some distros (<cough>motherfucking alpine</cough> subsume terminfo directly
 # into ncurses. accept either, and may god have mercy on our souls.
 pkg_search_module(TERMINFO REQUIRED tinfo>=6.1 ncursesw>=6.1)
+set_property(GLOBAL APPEND PROPERTY PACKAGES_FOUND terminfo)
+set_package_properties(terminfo PROPERTIES TYPE REQUIRED)
 if(${USE_FFMPEG})
-pkg_check_modules(AVCODEC libavcodec>=57.0)
+pkg_check_modules(AVCODEC REQUIRED libavcodec>=57.0)
 pkg_check_modules(AVFORMAT REQUIRED libavformat>=57.0)
 pkg_check_modules(AVUTIL REQUIRED libavutil>=56.0)
 pkg_check_modules(SWSCALE REQUIRED libswscale>=5.0)
-set_package_properties(AVCODEC PROPERTIES TYPE REQUIRED)
+set_property(GLOBAL APPEND PROPERTY PACKAGES_FOUND FFMpeg)
 elseif(${USE_OIIO})
 pkg_check_modules(OIIO REQUIRED OpenImageIO>=2.1)
+set_property(GLOBAL APPEND PROPERTY PACKAGES_FOUND OpenImageIO)
 endif()
 find_library(MATH_LIBRARIES m)
 if(${USE_DOCTEST})
@@ -96,12 +99,15 @@ check_include_file("uniwbrk.h" HAVE_UNISTRING_H)
 if(NOT "${HAVE_UNISTRING_H}")
   message(FATAL_ERROR "Couldn't find uniwbrk.h from GNU libunistring")
 endif()
+set_property(GLOBAL APPEND PROPERTY PACKAGES_FOUND libunistring)
+set_package_properties(libunistring PROPERTIES TYPE REQUIRED)
 unset(HAVE_QRCODEGEN_H CACHE)
 if("${USE_QRCODEGEN}")
 check_include_file("qrcodegen/qrcodegen.h" HAVE_QRCODEGEN_H)
 if(NOT "${HAVE_QRCODEGEN_H}")
   message(FATAL_ERROR "USE_QRCODEGEN is active, but couldn't find qrcodegen.h")
 endif()
+set_property(GLOBAL APPEND PROPERTY PACKAGES_FOUND qrcodegen)
 endif()
 find_library(LIBRT rt)