diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
index c0163dcafe6a..07467d5fc031 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
       "find_program('${stdenv.cc.bintools.targetPrefix}objcopy'"
   '';
 
-  outputs = [ "out" "lib" "man" "dev" ];
+  outputs = [ "out" "man" "dev" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs =
     [ pkgconfig intltool gperf libxslt gettext docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_42 docbook_xml_dtd_45
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
     "-Ddbussystemservicedir=${placeholder "out"}/share/dbus-1/system-services"
     "-Dpamconfdir=${placeholder "out"}/etc/pam.d"
     "-Drootprefix=${placeholder "out"}"
-    "-Drootlibdir=${placeholder "lib"}/lib"
     "-Dpkgconfiglibdir=${placeholder "dev"}/lib/pkgconfig"
     "-Dpkgconfigdatadir=${placeholder "dev"}/share/pkgconfig"
     "-Dloadkeys-path=${kbd}/bin/loadkeys"
@@ -276,38 +275,10 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
     # "kernel-install" shouldn't be used on NixOS.
     find $out -name "*kernel-install*" -exec rm {} \;
-
-    # Keep only libudev and libsystemd in the lib output.
-    mkdir -p $out/lib
-    mv $lib/lib/security $lib/lib/libnss* $out/lib/
   ''; # */
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  # On aarch64 we "leak" a reference to $out/lib/systemd/catalog in the lib
-  # output. The result of that is a dependency cycle between $out and $lib.
-  # Thus nix (rightfully) marks the build as failed. That reference originates
-  # from an array of strings (catalog_file_dirs) in systemd
-  # (src/src/journal/catalog.{c,h}).  The only consumer (as of v242) of the
-  # symbol is the main function of journalctl.  Still libsystemd.so contains
-  # the VALUE but not the symbol.  Systemd seems to be properly using function
-  # & data sections together with the linker flags to garbage collect unused
-  # sections (-Wl,--gc-sections).  For unknown reasons those flags do not
-  # eliminate the unused string constants, in this case on aarch64-linux. The
-  # hacky way is to just remove the reference after we finished compiling.
-  # Since it can not be used (there is no symbol to actually refer to it) there
-  # should not be any harm.  It is a bit odd and I really do not like starting
-  # these kind of hacks but there doesn't seem to be a straight forward way at
-  # this point in time.
-  # The reference will be replaced by the same reference the usual nukeRefs
-  # tooling uses.  The standard tooling can not / should not be uesd since it
-  # is a bit too excessive and could potentially do us some (more) harm.
-  postFixup = ''
-    nukedRef=$(echo $out | sed -e "s,$NIX_STORE/[^-]*-\(.*\),$NIX_STORE/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-\1,")
-    cat $lib/lib/libsystemd.so | perl -pe "s|$out/lib/systemd/catalog|$nukedRef/lib/systemd/catalog|" > $lib/lib/libsystemd.so.tmp
-    mv $lib/lib/libsystemd.so.tmp $(readlink -f $lib/lib/libsystemd.so)
-  '';
-
   # The interface version prevents NixOS from switching to an
   # incompatible systemd at runtime.  (Switching across reboots is
   # fine, of course.)  It should be increased whenever systemd changes