diff --git a/meta/classes/gsettings.bbclass b/meta/classes/gsettings.bbclass
index e6d1c8a893..eae3dc7999 100644
--- a/meta/classes/gsettings.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/gsettings.bbclass
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@
 
 # TODO use a trigger so that this runs once per package operation run
 
-DEPENDS += "glib-2.0-native"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "glib-2.0-utils"
 
 FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas"
 
+PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "glib-2.0-native"
+
 gsettings_postinstrm () {
 	glib-compile-schemas $D${datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas
 }