diff --git a/hplip.spec b/hplip.spec
index 38a5eb4..1080e8c 100644
--- a/hplip.spec
+++ b/hplip.spec
@@ -288,6 +288,10 @@ BuildRequires: systemd
 Recommends: avahi-tools
 # 1733449 - Scanner on an HP AIO printer is not detected unless libsane-hpaio is installed
 Recommends: libsane-hpaio%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+# downloaded plugin requires python3-gobject to work even via CLI...
+# but make it weak dependency, so users which don't need the plugin and have servers
+# can remove the python3-gobject which is used by desktop apps
+Recommends: python3-gobject
 
 Requires: cups
 # switch to curl by downstream patch from wget to workaround openstack dropping IPv6