diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-power-manager/patches/dont-build-manpage.patch b/srcpkgs/gnome-power-manager/patches/dont-build-manpage.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..262bc6a962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-power-manager/patches/dont-build-manpage.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- Makefile.in.orig	2011-10-20 09:53:34.642615857 +0200
++++ Makefile.in	2011-10-20 09:53:41.320457440 +0200
+@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+ SUBDIRS = \
+ 	src						\
+ 	po						\
+-	man						\
+ 	data
+ 
+ EXTRA_DIST = \
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-power-manager/template b/srcpkgs/gnome-power-manager/template
index 8d68317da0..68d027503e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gnome-power-manager/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-power-manager/template
@@ -34,34 +34,5 @@ Add_dependency run desktop-file-utils
 
 Add_dependency build pkg-config
 Add_dependency build intltool
-Add_dependency build gnome-doc-utils
 Add_dependency build gtk+3-devel
 Add_dependency build upower-devel
-
-pre_configure()
-{
-if [ "$version" = "3.2.1" ]; then
-	sed -i -e "s|^	gnome-power-manager.sgml			\\$||" \
-		${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	sed -i -e "s|^	gnome-power-statistics.sgml$||" ${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	sed -i -e "s|^	gnome-power-manager.1				\\$||" \
-		${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	sed -i -e "s|^	gnome-power-statistics.1$||" ${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	sed -i -e "s|^gnome-power-manager.1: gnome-power-manager.sgml$||" \
-		${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	sed -i -e "s|^gnome-power-statistics.1: gnome-power-statistics.sgml$||" \
-		${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	sed -i -e "s|docbook2man \$\? \&\> \/dev\/null||g" ${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	sed -i -e "s|\\\||g" ${wrksrc}/man/Makefile.am
-
-	rm ${wrksrc}/man/gnome-power-*.sgml
-fi
-
-}