diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
index 3985f8a0c83..eb337573018 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, python, zip, ffmpeg, pandoc ? null }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, buildPythonPackage, zip, ffmpeg
+, pandoc ? null }:
 
 # Pandoc is required to build the package's man page. Release tarballs
 # contain a formatted man page already, though, so it's fine to pass
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@
 # case someone wants to use this derivation to build a Git version of
 # the tool that doesn't have the formatted man page included.
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+buildPythonPackage rec {
   name = "youtube-dl-${version}";
   version = "2015.05.29";
 
@@ -16,18 +17,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0lgxir2i5ipplg57wk8gnbbsdrk7szqnyb1bxr97f3h0rbm4dfij";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ python makeWrapper zip pandoc ];
-
-  patchPhase = "rm youtube-dl";
-
-  configurePhase = ''
-    makeFlagsArray=( PREFIX=$out SYSCONFDIR=$out/etc PYTHON=${python}/bin/python )
-  '';
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper zip pandoc ];
 
   # Ensure ffmpeg is available in $PATH for post-processing & transcoding support.
-  postInstall = ''
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/youtube-dl --prefix PATH : "${ffmpeg}/bin"
-  '';
+  postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionalString (ffmpeg != null) 
+    ''wrapProgram $out/bin/youtube-dl --prefix PATH : "${ffmpeg}/bin"'';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = "http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b49c2e3b59d..3eb1ef1fddd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3391,12 +3391,6 @@ let
   # To expose more packages for Yi, override the extraPackages arg.
   yi = callPackage ../applications/editors/yi/wrapper.nix { };
 
-  youtube-dl = callPackage ../tools/misc/youtube-dl {
-    # Release versions don't need pandoc because the formatted man page
-    # is included in the tarball.
-    pandoc = null;
-  };
-
   zbar = callPackage ../tools/graphics/zbar {
     pygtk = lib.overrideDerivation pygtk (x: {
       gtk = gtk2;
@@ -14774,6 +14768,7 @@ let
   lttngUst = lttng-ust;  # added 2014-07-31
   jquery_ui = jquery-ui;  # added 2014-09-07
   youtubeDL = youtube-dl;  # added 2014-10-26
+  youtube-dl = pythonPackages.youtube-dl; # added 2015-06-07
   rdiff_backup = rdiff-backup;  # added 2014-11-23
   htmlTidy = html-tidy;  # added 2014-12-06
   libtidy = html-tidy;  # added 2014-12-21
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d3ddc879a17..c602200e81f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13466,6 +13466,19 @@ let
     };
   });
 
+  youtube-dl = callPackage ../tools/misc/youtube-dl {
+    # Release versions don't need pandoc because the formatted man page
+    # is included in the tarball.
+    pandoc = null;
+  };
+
+  youtube-dl-light = callPackage ../tools/misc/youtube-dl {
+    # Release versions don't need pandoc because the formatted man page
+    # is included in the tarball.
+    ffmpeg = null;
+    pandoc = null;
+  };
+
   zbase32 = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "zbase32-1.1.2";