diff --git a/virt-manager.spec b/virt-manager.spec
index 458029d..e567284 100644
--- a/virt-manager.spec
+++ b/virt-manager.spec
@@ -32,13 +32,16 @@ Requires: spice-gtk3
 # We can work with gtksourceview 3 or gtksourceview4, pick the latest one
 Requires: gtksourceview4
 
-%if ! 0%{?flatpak}
 # virt-manager is one of those apps that people will often install onto
 # a headless machine for use over SSH. This means the virt-manager dep
 # chain needs to provide everything we need to get a usable app experience.
 # Unfortunately nothing in our chain has an explicit dep on some kind
 # of usable gsettings backend, so we explicitly depend on dconf so that
 # user settings actually persist across app runs.
+#
+# That said, we skip this dep for flatpak, where dconf isn't used in
+# the runtime. gsettings defaults to ini file in that case
+%if ! 0%{?flatpak}
 Requires: dconf
 %endif