--- media-gfx/gtkimageview/gtkimageview-1.6.4.ebuild
+++ media-gfx/gtkimageview/gtkimageview-1.6.4.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 
 RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+:2"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	gnome-base/gnome-common
 	dev-util/gtk-doc-am
 "
 
@@ -37,6 +36,10 @@
 	# Don't rebuild gtk-doc
 	sed "/^TARGET_DIR/i \GTKDOC_REBASE=true" -i gtk-doc.make || die
 
+	# Prevent build failures due to GNOME_COMMON_INIT breaking autoreconf
+	# See: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools
+	sed -i '/GNOME_COM/d' configure.in || die
+
 	mv configure.in configure.ac || die
 	AT_NOELIBTOOLIZE=yes eautoreconf
 }