diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD
index 3845aef..d3f8470 100644
--- a/trunk/PKGBUILD
+++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ pkgname=(qemu qemu-headless qemu-arch-extra qemu-headless-arch-extra
          qemu-block-{iscsi,rbd,gluster} qemu-guest-agent)
 pkgdesc="A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer"
 pkgver=2.9.0
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 arch=(i686 x86_64)
 license=(GPL2 LGPL2.1)
 url="http://wiki.qemu.org/"
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ _headlessdeps=(seabios gnutls libpng libaio numactl jemalloc xfsprogs libnfs
 depends=(virglrenderer sdl2 vte3 brltty "${_headlessdeps[@]}")
 makedepends=(spice-protocol python2 ceph libiscsi glusterfs)
 source=("$url/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2"{,.sig}
-        qemu.sysusers
         qemu-ga.service
         65-kvm.rules
         allow_elf64.patch)
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ _package() {
 
   # systemd stuff
   install -Dm644 65-kvm.rules "$pkgdir/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules"
-  install -Dm644 qemu.sysusers "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/qemu.conf"
 
   # remove conflicting /var/run directory
   cd "$pkgdir"
diff --git a/trunk/qemu.sysusers b/trunk/qemu.sysusers
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c03e82..0000000
--- a/trunk/qemu.sysusers
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-g kvm 78 -