diff --git a/vtk.changes b/vtk.changes
index 933ac13..234606f 100644
--- a/vtk.changes
+++ b/vtk.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 11 13:17:49 UTC 2020 - Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
+
+- Remove -DVTK_PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_SUFFIX silently added with the
+  last change. As it specifies the path relative to the install
+  prefix, setting it to the absolute python_sitearch is obviously
+  wrong. As VTK figures out the correct path by itself, it is
+  completely unnecessary.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 10 14:06:37 UTC 2020 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index f84f9f7..8943ba0 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags}"
     -DVTK_INSTALL_LIBRARY_DIR:PATH=%{_lib} \
     -DVTK_INSTALL_PACKAGE_DIR:PATH=%{_lib}/cmake/%{pkgname} \
     -DVTK_INSTALL_QT_DIR:STRING=%{_lib}/qt5/plugins/designer \
-    -DVTK_PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_SUFFIX:PATH=%{python3_sitearch} \
     -DVTK_PYTHON_VERSION=3 \
     -DVTK_QT_VERSION=5 \
     -DVTK_USE_OGGTHEORA_ENCODER:BOOL=ON \