diff --git a/pulseaudio.changes b/pulseaudio.changes
index 53d6429..81b7fe6 100644
--- a/pulseaudio.changes
+++ b/pulseaudio.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov 15 13:23:47 UTC 2012 - tittiatcoke@gmail.com
+
+- add systemd to the buildrequires and enable systemd support
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Nov  4 00:58:52 UTC 2012 - crrodriguez@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/pulseaudio.spec b/pulseaudio.spec
index 812a301..6d0cfc5 100644
--- a/pulseaudio.spec
+++ b/pulseaudio.spec
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ BuildRequires:  translation-update-upstream
 BuildRequires:  update-desktop-files
 BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-devel
 # Only needed because we don't (and won't) support building xz tarballs by default... See bnc#697467
+BuildRequires:  systemd-devel
 BuildRequires:  xz
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gconf-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
@@ -271,6 +272,7 @@ export SUSE_ASNEEDED=0
 %configure \
         --disable-static \
         --disable-rpath \
+        --enable-systemd \
         --with-system-user=pulse \
         --with-system-group=pulse \
         --with-access-group=pulse-access \