diff --git a/doc/source/systemd.rst b/doc/source/systemd.rst
index 4f83b36..7853520 100644
--- a/doc/source/systemd.rst
+++ b/doc/source/systemd.rst
@@ -196,31 +196,6 @@
 
 .. _`remote-pdb`: https://pypi.org/project/remote-pdb/
 
-Known Issues
-============
-
-Be careful about systemd python libraries. There are 3 of them on
-pypi, and they are all very different. They unfortunately all install
-into the ``systemd`` namespace, which can cause some issues.
-
-- ``systemd-python`` - this is the upstream maintained library, it has
-  a version number like systemd itself (currently ``234``). This is
-  the one you want.
-- ``systemd`` - a python 3 only library, not what you want.
-- ``python-systemd`` - another library you don't want. Installing it
-  on a system will break ansible's ability to run. The package has now
-  been renamed to ``cysystemd``, which avoids the namespace collision.
-
-
-If we were using user units, the ``[Service]`` - ``Group=`` parameter
-doesn't seem to work with user units, even though the documentation
-says that it should. This means that we will need to do an explicit
-``/usr/bin/sg``. This has the downside of making the SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER
-be ``sg``. We can explicitly set that with ``SyslogIdentifier=``, but
-it's really unfortunate that we're going to need this work
-around. This is currently not a problem because we're only using
-system units.
-
 Future Work
 ===========
 
diff --git a/files/debs/general b/files/debs/general
index 4bf1ff4..d64417f 100644
--- a/files/debs/general
+++ b/files/debs/general
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 psmisc
 python3-dev
 python3-pip
+python3-systemd
 python3-venv
 tar
 tcpdump
diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/general b/files/rpms-suse/general
index 0af2b5b..0de0876 100644
--- a/files/rpms-suse/general
+++ b/files/rpms-suse/general
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 pcre-devel # python-pcre
 postgresql-devel  # psycopg2
 psmisc
+python3-systemd
 python-cmd2 # dist:opensuse-12.3
 python-devel  # pyOpenSSL
 python-xml
-systemd-devel # for systemd-python
 tar
 tcpdump
 unzip
diff --git a/files/rpms/general b/files/rpms/general
index c42ce52..cfcd7ff 100644
--- a/files/rpms/general
+++ b/files/rpms/general
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 psmisc
 python3-devel
 python3-pip
+python3-systemd
 redhat-rpm-config # missing dep for gcc hardening flags, see rhbz#1217376
-systemd-devel # for systemd-python
 tar
 tcpdump
 unzip
diff --git a/stack.sh b/stack.sh
index bb4dfa2..036afd7 100755
--- a/stack.sh
+++ b/stack.sh
@@ -761,7 +761,6 @@
 # Install subunit for the subunit output stream
 pip_install -U os-testr
 
-pip_install_gr systemd-python
 # the default rate limit of 1000 messages / 30 seconds is not
 # sufficient given how verbose our logging is.
 iniset -sudo /etc/systemd/journald.conf "Journal" "RateLimitBurst" "0"