diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4%.bbappend b/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4%.bbappend
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+# rest requires libsoup-gnome-2.4
+PACKAGECONFIG = "gnome"