diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 728e52430..862530959 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-10-03  Kjartan Maraas  <kmaraas@gnome.org>
+
+	* configure.in: Remove circular dep metacity<->gnomecc.
+
 2007-09-15  Elijah Newren  <newren gmail com>
 
 	* configure.in: post-release version bump to 2.20.1
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b8a8cad5e..b51cc01df 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -176,11 +176,8 @@ else
    AC_MSG_ERROR("Pango 1.2.0 or greater based on Xft2 is required")
 fi
 
-if $PKG_CONFIG --exists gnome-keybindings; then
-  GNOME_KEYBINDINGS_KEYSDIR=$($PKG_CONFIG --variable keysdir gnome-keybindings)
-else
-  GNOME_KEYBINDINGS_KEYSDIR="${datadir}/gnome-control-center/keybindings"
-fi
+# Unconditionally use this dir to avoid a circular dep with gnomecc
+GNOME_KEYBINDINGS_KEYSDIR="${datadir}/gnome-control-center/keybindings"
 AC_SUBST(GNOME_KEYBINDINGS_KEYSDIR)
 
 STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION=0.7