diff --git a/templates/glib.tmpl b/templates/glib.tmpl
index a0d9edf534d..aa7a1c971d3 100644
--- a/templates/glib.tmpl
+++ b/templates/glib.tmpl
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.18/$pkgname-$version@.tar.bz2"
 configure_args="--disable-fam --with-pcre=system"
 ignore_files="charset.alias"
 build_style=gnu_configure
-pkgconfig_override="glib-2.0.pc gmodule-2.0.pc gmodule-export-2.0.pc
- gmodule-no-export-2.0.pc gobject-2.0.pc gthread-2.0.pc gio-2.0.pc
- gio-unix-2.0.pc"
 short_desc="The GNU library of C routines"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 checksum=95e99ab4f1ccc9abd48636ae2aeefa102d9749a5fc8ea6386e44683942fd7333
@@ -19,4 +16,5 @@ long_desc="
  as trees, hashes, lists and strings. It is a useful general purpose
  C library used by projects such as GTK+, GIMP and GNOME."
 
-build_depends="pcre-7.8 pkg-config-0.23"
+build_depends="pcre-7.8 pkg-config-0.23 gettext-0.17"
+run_depends="glibc-2.8 pcre-7.8"