diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template
deleted file mode 100644
index d40bc2d974..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'libpcre'.
-#
-short_desc="${short_desc} - shared libraries"
-replaces="pcre<8.11"
-
-do_install() {
-	vmove "usr/lib/libpcre.so*" usr/lib
-	vmove "usr/lib/libpcreposix.so*" usr/lib
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcrecpp.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcrecpp.template
deleted file mode 100644
index 68b5113ea4..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcrecpp.template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'libpcrecpp'.
-#
-short_desc="${short_desc} - C++ shared libraries"
-
-do_install() {
-	vmove "usr/lib/libpcrecpp.so*" usr/lib
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
deleted file mode 100644
index c91011f7df..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'pcre-devel'.
-#
-noarch=yes
-depends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpcre>=${version} libpcrecpp>=${version}"
-short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
-
-do_install() {
-	vmove usr/bin/pcre-config usr/bin
-	vmove usr/include usr
-	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
-	vmove usr/share/man/man1/pcre-config.1.gz usr/share/man/man1
-	vmove usr/share/man/man3 usr/share/man
-	vmove usr/share/doc usr/share
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 1b0d569db8..be43f27ae0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 pkgname=pcre
 version=8.32
 revision=2
-subpackages="libpcre libpcrecpp pcre-devel"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties --with-pic
 --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf
@@ -22,3 +21,42 @@ if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
 		autoreconf -fi
 	}
 fi
+
+
+libpcrecpp_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - C++ shared libraries"
+
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/libpcrecpp.so*"
+	}
+}
+
+libpcre_package() {
+	short_desc="${short_desc} - shared libraries"
+	replaces="pcre<8.11"
+
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/libpcre.so*"
+		vmove "usr/lib/libpcreposix.so*"
+	}
+}
+
+pcre-devel_package() {
+	depends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpcre>=${version} libpcrecpp>=${version}"
+	short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
+
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/bin/pcre-config
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/share/man/man1/pcre-config.1
+		vmove usr/share/man/man3
+		vmove usr/share/doc
+	}
+}
+
+pcre_package() {
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr
+	}
+}