diff --git a/srcpkgs/php/files/php-fpm.service b/srcpkgs/php/files/php-fpm.service
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e2faafd86..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/php/files/php-fpm.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
-After=syslog.target network.target
-
-[Service]
-Type=notify
-PIDFile=/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid
-PrivateTmp=true
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/php-fpm --nodaemonize --pid /run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid
-ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/srcpkgs/php/files/php-fpm.tmpfiles b/srcpkgs/php/files/php-fpm.tmpfiles
deleted file mode 100644
index 801e74f1e6..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/php/files/php-fpm.tmpfiles
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-d /run/php-fpm 755 root root
diff --git a/srcpkgs/php/template b/srcpkgs/php/template
index dca32f2eb2..d1e2a0f8ad 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/php/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/php/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file for 'php'
 pkgname=php
 version=5.6.9
-revision=1
+revision=2
 short_desc="An HTML-embedded scripting language"
 license="PHP"
 homepage="http://www.php.net"
@@ -12,13 +12,12 @@ makedepends="postgresql-libs-devel libldap-devel libvpx-devel sqlite-devel
  libltdl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel icu-devel
  libcurl-devel libxslt-devel libressl-devel bzip2-devel zlib-devel db-devel
  gmp-devel gdbm-devel freetype-devel apache-devel tidy-devel
- readline-devel libmysqlclient-devel $(vopt_if systemd systemd-devel)"
+ readline-devel libmysqlclient-devel"
 conf_files="/etc/php/php.ini"
 distfiles="http://www.php.net/distributions/php-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=49527ba66357fe65bcd463dfb8dcff1b8879419f88b3c334f50696a2aceacb87
 
 # Package build options
-build_options="systemd"
 nocross=yes
 lib32disabled=yes
 
@@ -89,7 +88,6 @@ do_build() {
 		--with-xsl=shared \
 		--with-tidy=shared \
 		--with-zlib \
-		$(vopt_with systemd fpm-systemd) \
 		${configure_args} \
 		"
 
@@ -209,10 +207,6 @@ php-fpm_package() {
 		vbin ${wrksrc}/build-fpm/sapi/fpm/php-fpm
 		vman ${wrksrc}/build-fpm/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.8
 		vinstall ${wrksrc}/build-fpm/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.conf 644 etc/php
-		if [ "$build_option_systemd" ]; then
-			vinstall ${FILESDIR}/php-fpm.tmpfiles 644 usr/lib/tmpfiles.d php-fpm.conf
-			vinstall ${FILESDIR}/php-fpm.service 644 usr/lib/systemd/system
-		fi
 		vsv php-fpm
 	}
 }