diff --git a/srcpkgs/irqbalance/files/irqbalance.service b/srcpkgs/irqbalance/files/irqbalance.service
deleted file mode 100644
index 47fdd714e5..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/irqbalance/files/irqbalance.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=IRQ Balancer daemon
-
-[Service]
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/srcpkgs/irqbalance/template b/srcpkgs/irqbalance/template
index 2b7b551c38..066565e3f0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/irqbalance/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/irqbalance/template
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'irqbalance'
 pkgname=irqbalance
 version=1.0.9
-revision=1
-build_options="systemd"
+revision=3
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config"
 makedepends="libglib-devel libcap-ng-devel libnuma-devel"
@@ -12,13 +11,11 @@ license="GPL-2"
 homepage="https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance"
 distfiles="https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=f1b8115948bb9f0bc36b9d7143ee8be751a294bc189d311408e753acc37169c3
+configure_args="--sbindir=/usr/bin"
 
 pre_configure() {
 	NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 }
 post_install() {
 	vsv ${pkgname}
-	if [ "$build_option_systemd" ]; then
-		vinstall ${FILESDIR}/${pkgname}.service 644 usr/lib/systemd/system
-	fi
 }