diff --git a/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.cache b/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.cache
index dec105517..82ec36b4d 100644
--- a/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.cache
+++ b/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.cache
@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@
 [DEP] findutils gawk gcc34 gcc34:dev gettext glibc23 glibc23:dev
 [DEP] gnome-libs14 gnome14-dirtree gnome2-dirtree grep linux26-header:dev
 [DEP] make mktemp net-tools perl5 pkgconfig sed sysfiles tar texinfo
-[DEP] util-linux
+[DEP] util-linux librsvg
 
 
diff --git a/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.desc b/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.desc
index 75808784e..3871f51d0 100644
--- a/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.desc
+++ b/package/gnome2/spheres-and-crystals/spheres-and-crystals.desc
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
 
 [C] extra/theme extra/desktop/gnome
 
+# looks like the dependency to librsvg is just a bogus bullying by the
+# configure script and is not detected by our syscall wrappers...
+[E] add librsvg
+
 [L] Unknown
 [S] Beta
 [V] 0.7