diff --git a/python-setuptools.changes b/python-setuptools.changes
index d8ff5d8..f517e8c 100644
--- a/python-setuptools.changes
+++ b/python-setuptools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 16 13:58:35 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Try to use system packages rather than the vendored variants
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 16 11:55:57 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-setuptools.spec b/python-setuptools.spec
index 27cbb11..f57b7a4 100644
--- a/python-setuptools.spec
+++ b/python-setuptools.spec
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Patch0:         sort-for-reproducibility.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module appdirs}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module ordered-set}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module packaging}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyparsing >= 2.0.2}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module six}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module xml}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
@@ -59,17 +60,12 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module Paver}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pip}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyparsing >= 2.0.2}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-fixture-config}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-virtualenv}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools >= %{version}}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module wheel}
 BuildRequires:  python-futures
-%else
-#!BuildIgnore:  python-pyparsing
-#!BuildIgnore:  python2-pyparsing
-#!BuildIgnore:  python3-pyparsing
 %endif
 %if 0%{?suse_version} || 0%{?fedora_version} >= 24
 Recommends:     ca-certificates-mozilla
@@ -101,6 +97,21 @@ chmod -x README.rst
 # replace with nothing
 sed -r -i '1s@^#!/.*$@@' setuptools/command/easy_install.py
 
+# replace the bundled stuff
+find ./ -type f -name \*.py -exec sed -i \
+  -e 's:from setuptools\.extern\.:from :g' \
+  -e 's:from pkg_resources\.extern\.:from :g' \
+  -e 's:pkg_resources\.extern\.::g' \
+  -e 's:setuptools\.extern\.::g' \
+  {} \;
+find ./ -type f -name \*.py -exec sed -i \
+  -e 's:from setuptools\.extern ::g' \
+  -e 's:from pkg_resources\.extern ::g' \
+  {} \;
+find ./ -type f -name \*.py -exec sed -i  \
+  -e 's:from .extern ::g' \
+  {} \;
+
 %build
 %python_build