diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb
index 3d3e65f..98c23b2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "GNOME configuration system"
 SECTION = "x11/gnome"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+PR = "r1"
+
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
 
+
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 dbus dbus-glib libxml2 intltool-native"
 
 inherit gnomebase
@@ -30,7 +33,9 @@ do_install_append() {
 	rm ${D}${libdir}/gio/*/*.*a
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "dbus-x11"
+# disable dbus-x11 when x11 isn't in DISTRO_FEATURES
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'dbus-x11', '', d)}"
+
 FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/GConf/* \
 	        ${libdir}/gio/*/*.so \
 		${datadir}/polkit* \
