diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/hardware/libinput.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/hardware/libinput.nix
index 072004d5dd9..58fe702d496 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/hardware/libinput.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/hardware/libinput.nix
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ in {
       })
     ];
 
-    services.udev.packages = [ pkgs.libinput ];
+    services.udev.packages = [ pkgs.libinput.out ];
 
     services.xserver.config =
       ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libinput/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libinput/default.nix
index 5498a32e709..d42bd315d22 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libinput/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libinput/default.nix
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "01nb1shnl871d939wgfd7nc9svclcnfjfhlq64b4yns2dvcr24gk";
   };
 
-  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
+  outputs = [ "bin" "out" "dev" ];
 
   mesonFlags = [
     (mkFlag documentationSupport "documentation")
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     (mkFlag testsSupport "tests")
   ];
 
+  preConfigure = ''
+    mesonFlags="$mesonFlags --libexecdir=$bin/libexec"
+  '';
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig meson ninja ]
     ++ optionals documentationSupport [ doxygen graphviz ]
     ++ optionals testsSupport [ check valgrind python3Packages.pyparsing ];