diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon_41.0.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon_41.0.bb
index 976aa62227..82504a4068 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon_41.0.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon_41.0.bb
@@ -23,11 +23,10 @@ DEPENDS = " \
 
 # all these are mandatory
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11 polkit pulseaudio systemd gobject-introspection-data"
+GIR_MESON_OPTION = ""
 
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "e6ca6361fbd1deab2de1a1e390d4f14167cf47b1c547dbb8b65a5d89e9663884"
 
-UNKNOWN_CONFIGURE_WHITELIST = "introspection"
-
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \
     cups nm \
     alsa gudev \