diff --git a/virt-manager.changes b/virt-manager.changes
index a49fedc3..035cad81 100644
--- a/virt-manager.changes
+++ b/virt-manager.changes
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-Tue May 11 09:26:27 UTC 2010 - seife@opensuse.org
-
-- fix virt-{clone,convert,image,install} by installing the python
-  libs into the proper directories
-
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Apr 26 10:58:32 MDT 2010 - carnold@novell.com
 
diff --git a/virt-manager.spec b/virt-manager.spec
index f31ae3e2..e7914494 100644
--- a/virt-manager.spec
+++ b/virt-manager.spec
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
 %define virtinst_rel 3
 %define virtinst_name virtinst-%{virtinst_maj}.%{virtinst_min}.%{virtinst_rel}
 
-%define pysite %(python -c "import distutils.sysconfig; print distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()")
-
 Name:           virt-manager
 Summary:        Virtual Machine Manager
 Version:        0.8.4
@@ -158,7 +156,7 @@ popd
 %install
 make install  DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 pushd $RPM_BUILD_DIR/%{virtinst_name}
-python setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --install-lib=%{pysite}/
+python setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --install-lib=%{_datadir}/virt-manager
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/scrollkeeper
 popd
 #rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/%{name}/sparkline.a
@@ -223,9 +221,9 @@ sed -i -e 's/Categories=.*/Categories=Qt;X-SuSE-YaST;X-SuSE-YaST-Virtualization;
 %{_datadir}/%{name}/*.py
 %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/virtManager
 %{_datadir}/%{name}/virtManager/*.py
-%dir %{pysite}/virtinst
-%{pysite}/virtinst/*.py
-%{pysite}/virtinst/*.pyc
+%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/virtinst
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/virtinst/*.py
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/virtinst/*.pyc
 # %dir %attr(775,root,root) %{_datadir}/locale/or
 # %dir %attr(775,root,root) %{_datadir}/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES
 # %{_datadir}/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/*
@@ -241,13 +239,13 @@ sed -i -e 's/Categories=.*/Categories=Qt;X-SuSE-YaST;X-SuSE-YaST-Virtualization;
 %{_mandir}/man1/virt-install.1*  
 %{_mandir}/man5/virt-image.5*  
 # new files for virt-manager-0.8.1
-%dir %{pysite}/virtconv
-%{pysite}/virtconv/*.py
-%{pysite}/virtconv/*.pyc
-%dir %{pysite}/virtconv/parsers
-%{pysite}/virtconv/parsers/*.py
-%{pysite}/virtconv/parsers/*.pyc
-%{pysite}/%{virtinst_name}-py2.6.egg-info
+%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/virtconv
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/virtconv/*.py
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/virtconv/*.pyc
+%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/virtconv/parsers
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/virtconv/parsers/*.py
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/virtconv/parsers/*.pyc
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/%{virtinst_name}-py2.6.egg-info
 %doc %{_datadir}/gnome/help/%{name}/C/figures/*.png
 %doc %{_datadir}/gnome/help/%{name}/C/*.xml
 # FIXME: autobuild complains that these are unowned (not true...)