diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e63db930c..45af5b4f2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-01-16  Sebastien Bacher  <seb128@debian.org>
+
+	* configure.in: the new gnome-default-applications capplet uses libxml2
+
 2006-01-16  Sebastien Bacher  <seb128@debian.org>
 
 	* configure.in: fix gstreamer0.10 requirement
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index fbfb08832..d82ac4a07 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GNOME, libgnomeui-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(VFS_CAPPLET, $COMMON_MODULES gnome-vfs-module-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GNOME_DESKTOP, gnome-desktop-2.0)
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DEFAULT_APPLICATIONS_CAPPLET, libxml-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SOUND_CAPPLET, esound)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(METACITY, libmetacity-private)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBXKLAVIER, libxklavier >= 1.14,,