diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 11dcfbd4f..e79f3aaa0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-11-23  Jens Granseuer  <jensgr@gmx.net>
+
+	Patch by: <dmacks@netspace.org>
+
+	* configure.in: remove eel dependency from libslab (bug #561944)
+
 2008-11-20  Jens Granseuer  <jensgr@gmx.net>
 
 	Patch by: Maxim Ermilov <zaspire@rambler.ru>
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 1e34a79ee..3ffafc504 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ COMMON_MODULES="gtk+-2.0 >= 2.13.1 dnl
  gconf-2.0 dnl
  libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0 dnl
  gnome-desktop-2.0 >= 2.25.1"
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBSLAB, $COMMON_MODULES gnome-desktop-2.0 librsvg-2.0 libgnome-menu pango eel-2.0 libgnomeui-2.0)
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBSLAB, $COMMON_MODULES gnome-desktop-2.0 librsvg-2.0 libgnome-menu pango libgnomeui-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(CAPPLET, $COMMON_MODULES)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GNOMECC, $COMMON_MODULES libgnome-menu >= 2.10.1)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GNOMECC_SHELL, $COMMON_MODULES libgnomeui-2.0 libgnome-menu libpanelapplet-2.0)