diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index af11553dcf..31f0f9ac6f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ endif()
         # check which modules are available
         if(UNIX OR WIN32)
             find_package(VTK COMPONENTS vtkCommonCore REQUIRED NO_MODULE)
-            list(APPEND VTK_COMPONENTS vtkIOMPIParallel vtkParallelMPI vtkhdf5)
+            list(APPEND VTK_COMPONENTS vtkIOMPIParallel vtkParallelMPI vtkhdf5 vtkFiltersParallelDIY2 vtkRenderingCore vtkInteractionStyle vtkRenderingFreeType vtkRenderingOpenGL2)
             foreach(_module ${VTK_COMPONENTS})
                 list (FIND VTK_MODULES_ENABLED ${_module} _index)
                 if (${_index} GREATER -1)
@@ -708,8 +708,6 @@ endif()
         endif()
         # on openSUSE 13.1 VTK_LIBRARIES ends with "optimized" keyword
         list(REMOVE_ITEM VTK_LIBRARIES "optimized" "debug")
-        # the FEM module on Arch needs some more libs
-        list(APPEND VTK_LIBRARIES "vtkFiltersParallelDIY2" "vtkRenderingCore" "vtkInteractionStyle" "vtkRenderingFreeType" "vtkRenderingOpenGL2")
 
         if(NOT FREECAD_USE_EXTERNAL_SMESH)
             # See https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/cmakebuild.html