diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index d0ee3d2179..643ebae3b4 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ libcairo-script-interpreter.so.2 cairo-1.8.6_1
 libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 gtk+-2.16.0_1
 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 gtk+-2.16.0_1
 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.22.0_1
-libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.22.0_1
+libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.30.8_1
 libgailutil.so.18 gtk+-2.16.0_1
 libfreetype.so.6 freetype-2.3.9_1
 libfontconfig.so.1 fontconfig-2.6.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf-xlib b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf-xlib
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..fa20dc708a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf-xlib
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gdk-pixbuf
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template
index 58908876a0..be8075ac13 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Template build file for 'gdk-pixbuf'.
 pkgname=gdk-pixbuf
-version=2.30.7
+version=2.30.8
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
-configure_args="--without-libjasper --with-included-loaders=png --with-x11"
-hostmakedepends="perl pkg-config glib-devel"
+configure_args="--without-libjasper --with-included-loaders=png --with-x11 gio_can_sniff=yes"
+hostmakedepends="libtool perl pkg-config glib-devel"
 makedepends="libglib-devel libpng-devel>=1.6 libjpeg-turbo-devel tiff-devel libX11-devel"
 triggers="gtk-pixbuf-loaders"
 short_desc="An Image loading library for The GTK+ toolkit (v2)"
@@ -12,16 +12,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.gtk.org/"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/${version%.*}/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
-checksum=0aafc365eab1083a53f15e4828333b968219ffcb1a995ac6289c0147c9ffad06
-
-if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	# needs glib-mkenums
-	hostmakedepends+=" libtool"
-	configure_args+=" gio_can_sniff=yes"
-	pre_configure() {
-		libtoolize -f
-	}
-fi
+checksum=4853830616113db4435837992c0aebd94cbb993c44dc55063cee7f72a7bef8be
 
 # Package build options
 build_options="gir"
@@ -39,8 +30,20 @@ else
 	configure_args+=" --disable-introspection"
 fi
 
+pre_configure() {
+	libtoolize -f
+}
+
+gdk-pixbuf-xlib_package() {
+	replaces="${sourcepkg}<2.30.8"
+	short_desc+=" - xlib rendering library"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf_xlib*.so.*
+	}
+}
+
 gdk-pixbuf-devel_package() {
-	depends="perl libpng-devel>=1.6 shared-mime-info ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	depends="libglib-devel libpng-devel>=1.6 ${sourcepkg}-xlib>=${version}_${revision} ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"