diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 931d0abd..6027aa08 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 This file will contain a list of notable changes for each release. Note
 the information in this file is in reverse order.
 
+## OpenRC-0.23
+
+The tmpfiles.d processing code, which was part of previous versions of
+OpenRC, has been separated into its own package [1]. If you need to
+process systemd style tmpfiles.d files, please install this package.
+
+[1] https://github.com/openrc/opentmpfiles
+
 ## OpenRC-0.22
 
 In previous versions of OpenRC, configuration information was processed
diff --git a/conf.d/Makefile b/conf.d/Makefile
index a18ca749..6c7962b6 100644
--- a/conf.d/Makefile
+++ b/conf.d/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 include ../mk/net.mk
 
 DIR=	${CONFDIR}
-CONF=	bootmisc fsck hostname localmount netmount swap urandom tmpfiles \
-		${CONF-${OS}}
+CONF=	bootmisc fsck hostname localmount netmount swap urandom ${CONF-${OS}}
 
 ifeq (${MKNET},yes)
 CONF+= network staticroute
diff --git a/conf.d/tmpfiles b/conf.d/tmpfiles
deleted file mode 100644
index c3f208fe..00000000
--- a/conf.d/tmpfiles
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Extra options for tmpfiles.sh
-#tmpfiles_opts="--verbose"
-tmpfiles_opts=""
diff --git a/init.d/.gitignore b/init.d/.gitignore
index 98748c7b..b8cbb487 100644
--- a/init.d/.gitignore
+++ b/init.d/.gitignore
@@ -45,5 +45,3 @@ syslogd
 termencoding
 ttys
 wscons
-tmpfiles.dev
-tmpfiles.setup
diff --git a/init.d/Makefile b/init.d/Makefile
index bec4eaf9..75c88adc 100644
--- a/init.d/Makefile
+++ b/init.d/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ include ../mk/net.mk
 
 DIR=	${INITDIR}
 SRCS=	bootmisc.in fsck.in hostname.in local.in localmount.in loopback.in \
-	netmount.in osclock.in root.in savecache.in swap.in tmpfiles.setup.in  \
-	swclock.in sysctl.in runsvdir.in urandom.in s6-svscan.in ${SRCS-${OS}}
+	netmount.in osclock.in root.in savecache.in swap.in swclock.in \
+	sysctl.in runsvdir.in urandom.in s6-svscan.in ${SRCS-${OS}}
 BIN=	${OBJS}
 
 # Are we installing our network scripts?
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ SRCS-FreeBSD+=	adjkerntz.in devd.in dumpon.in encswap.in ipfw.in \
 
 SRCS-Linux=	binfmt.in devfs.in dmesg.in hwclock.in consolefont.in keymaps.in \
 		killprocs.in modules.in modules-load.in mount-ro.in mtab.in numlock.in \
-		procfs.in net-online.in sysfs.in termencoding.in tmpfiles.dev.in
+		procfs.in net-online.in sysfs.in termencoding.in
 
 # Generic BSD scripts
 SRCS-NetBSD=	hostid.in moused.in newsyslog.in pf.in rarpd.in rc-enabled.in \
diff --git a/init.d/tmpfiles.dev.in b/init.d/tmpfiles.dev.in
deleted file mode 100644
index c70a29e3..00000000
--- a/init.d/tmpfiles.dev.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!@SBINDIR@/openrc-run
-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
-# Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
-
-description="Set up tmpfiles.d entries"
-
-depend()
-{
-	use dev-mount
-	before dev
-	keyword -prefix -vserver
-}
-
-start()
-{
-	ebegin "Setting up tmpfiles.d entries for /dev"
-	@LIBEXECDIR@/sh/tmpfiles.sh --prefix=/dev --create --boot ${tmpfiles_opts}
-	eend $?
-	return 0
-}
diff --git a/init.d/tmpfiles.setup.in b/init.d/tmpfiles.setup.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 5872feaa..00000000
--- a/init.d/tmpfiles.setup.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!@SBINDIR@/openrc-run
-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
-# Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
-
-description="Set up tmpfiles.d entries"
-
-depend()
-{
-	need localmount
-}
-
-start()
-{
-	ebegin "Setting up tmpfiles.d entries"
-	@LIBEXECDIR@/sh/tmpfiles.sh --exclude-prefix=/dev --create --remove --boot \
-		${tmpfiles_opts}
-	eend $?
-	return 0
-}
diff --git a/runlevels/Makefile b/runlevels/Makefile
index 6abd8c52..103577ac 100644
--- a/runlevels/Makefile
+++ b/runlevels/Makefile
@@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ BOOT-FreeBSD+=	hostid modules newsyslog savecore syslogd
 BOOT-FreeBSD+=	adjkerntz dumpon syscons
 
 BOOT-Linux+=	binfmt hwclock keymaps modules mtab procfs termencoding \
-	tmpfiles.setup
 SHUTDOWN-Linux=	killprocs mount-ro
-SYSINIT-Linux=	devfs dmesg sysfs tmpfiles.dev
+SYSINIT-Linux=	devfs dmesg sysfs
 
 # Generic BSD stuff
 BOOT-NetBSD+=	hostid newsyslog savecore syslogd
diff --git a/sh/.gitignore b/sh/.gitignore
index f814f4a0..8a007103 100644
--- a/sh/.gitignore
+++ b/sh/.gitignore
@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@ cgroup-release-agent.sh
 init.sh
 init-early.sh
 rc-cgroup.sh
-tmpfiles.sh
 migrate-to-run.sh
 binfmt.sh
diff --git a/sh/Makefile b/sh/Makefile
index 1af23ecd..4d7148fb 100644
--- a/sh/Makefile
+++ b/sh/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 DIR=	${LIBEXECDIR}/sh
 SRCS=	init.sh.in functions.sh.in gendepends.sh.in \
-	openrc-run.sh.in rc-functions.sh.in tmpfiles.sh.in ${SRCS-${OS}}
+	openrc-run.sh.in rc-functions.sh.in ${SRCS-${OS}}
 INC=	rc-mount.sh functions.sh rc-functions.sh runit.sh s6.sh \
 		start-stop-daemon.sh supervise-daemon.sh
-BIN=	gendepends.sh init.sh openrc-run.sh tmpfiles.sh ${BIN-${OS}}
+BIN=	gendepends.sh init.sh openrc-run.sh ${BIN-${OS}}
 
 INSTALLAFTER=	_installafter
 
diff --git a/sh/tmpfiles.sh.in b/sh/tmpfiles.sh.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 87545ed5..00000000
--- a/sh/tmpfiles.sh.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,457 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# This is a reimplementation of the systemd tmpfiles.d code
-# Control creation, deletion, and cleaning of volatile and temporary files
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2012 Gentoo Foundation
-# Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
-#
-# This instance is a pure-POSIX sh version, written by Robin H Johnson
-# <robbat2@gentoo.org>, based on the Arch Linux version as of 2012/01/01:
-# http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/tree/arch-tmpfiles
-#
-# See the tmpfiles.d manpage as well:
-# https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html
-# This script should match the old manpage
-# http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/tmpfiles.d.html
-# as of 2012/03/12 and also implements some more recent features
-#
-
-DRYRUN=0
-CHECKPATH="@LIBEXECDIR@/bin/checkpath"
-
-checkprefix() {
-	n=$1
-	shift
-	for x in $@; do
-		case $n in
-			${x}*) return 0 ;;
-	esac
-	done
-	return 1
-}
-
-warninvalid() {
-	printf "tmpfiles: ignoring invalid entry on line %d of \`%s'\n" "$LINENUM" "$FILE"
-	error=$(( error+1 ))
-} >&2
-
-invalid_option() {
-	printf "tmpfiles: invalid option '%s'\n" "$1" >&2
-	exit 1
-}
-
-dryrun_or_real() {
-	local dryrun=
-	[ $DRYRUN -eq 1 ] && dryrun=echo
-	$dryrun "$@"
-}
-
-_chattr() {
-	local attr="$2"
-	case $attr in
-		[+-=]*) : ;;
-		'') return ;;
-		*) attr="+$attr" ;;
-	esac
-	local IFS=
-	dryrun_or_real chattr $1 "$attr" -- $3
-}
-
-relabel() {
-	local path
-	local paths=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4
-
-	for path in ${paths}; do
-		if [ -e "$path" ]; then
-			[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && dryrun_or_real restorecon $CHOPTS "$path"
-			[ $uid != '-' ] && dryrun_or_real chown $CHOPTS "$uid" "$path"
-			[ $gid != '-' ] && dryrun_or_real chgrp $CHOPTS "$gid" "$path"
-			[ $mode != '-' ] && dryrun_or_real chmod $CHOPTS "$mode" "$path"
-		fi
-	done
-}
-
-splitpath() {
-    local path=$1
-    while [ -n "$path" ]; do
-        echo $path
-        path=${path%/*}
-    done
-}
-
-_restorecon() {
-    local path=$1
-    if [ -x /sbin/restorecon ]; then
-        dryrun_or_real restorecon -F $(splitpath "$path")
-    fi
-}
-
-_b() {
-	# Create a block device node if it doesn't exist yet
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4 age=$5 arg=$6
-	if [ ! -e "$path" ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real mknod -m $mode $path b ${arg%:*} ${arg#*:}
-		_restorecon "$path"
-		dryrun_or_real chown $uid:$gid $path
-	fi
-}
-
-_c() {
-	# Create a character device node if it doesn't exist yet
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4 age=$5 arg=$6
-	if [ ! -e "$path" ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real mknod -m $mode $path c ${arg%:*} ${arg#*:}
-		_restorecon "$path"
-		dryrun_or_real chown $uid:$gid $path
-	fi
-}
-
-_C() {
-	# recursively copy a file or directory
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4 age=$5 arg=$6
-	if [ ! -e "$path" ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real cp -r "$arg" "$path"
-		_restorecon "$path"
-		[ $uid != '-' ] && dryrun_or_real chown "$uid" "$path"
-		[ $gid != '-' ] && dryrun_or_real chgrp "$gid" "$path"
-		[ $mode != '-' ] && dryrun_or_real chmod "$mode" "$path"
-	fi
-}
-
-_f() {
-	# Create a file if it doesn't exist yet
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4 age=$5 arg=$6
-
-	[ $CREATE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	if [ ! -e "$path" ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real $CHECKPATH -fq -m "$mode" -o "$uid:$gid" "$path"
-		[ -z "$arg" ] || _w "$@"
-	fi
-}
-
-_F() {
-	# Create or truncate a file
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4 age=$5 arg=$6
-
-	[ $CREATE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	dryrun_or_real $CHECKPATH -Fq -m "$mode" -o "$uid:$gid" "$path"
-	[ -z "$arg" ] || _w "$@"
-}
-
-_d() {
-	# Create a directory if it doesn't exist yet
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4
-
-	[ $CREATE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	if [ ! -d "$path" ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real mkdir -p "$path" 2>/dev/null
-		_restorecon "$path"
-		dryrun_or_real $CHECKPATH -dq -m "$mode" -o "$uid:$gid" "$path"
-	fi
-}
-
-_D() {
-	# Create or empty a directory
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4
-
-	if [ -d "$path" ] && [ $REMOVE -gt 0 ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real find "$path" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -xdev -exec rm -rf {} +
-		_restorecon "$path"
-	fi
-
-	if [ $CREATE -gt 0 ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real mkdir -p "$path" 2>/dev/null
-		_restorecon "$path"
-		dryrun_or_real $CHECKPATH -Dq -m "$mode" -o "$uid:$gid" "$path"
-	fi
-}
-
-_v() {
-	# Create a subvolume if the path does not exist yet and the file system
-	# supports this (btrfs). Otherwise create a normal directory.
-	# TODO: Implement btrfs subvol creation.
-	_d "$@"
-}
-
-_q() {
-	# Similar to _v. However, make sure that the subvolume will be assigned
-	# to the same higher-level quota groups as the subvolume it has
-	# been created in.
-	# TODO: Implement btrfs subvol creation.
-	_d "$@"
-}
-
-_Q() {
-	# Similar to q. However, instead of copying the higher-level quota
-	# group assignments from the parent as-is, the lowest quota group
-	# of the parent subvolume is determined that is not the
-	# leaf quota group.
-	# TODO: Implement btrfs subvol creation.
-	_d "$@"
-}
-
-_h() {
-	# Set file/directory attributes. Lines of this type accept
-	# shell-style globs in place of normal path names.
-	# The format of the argument field matches chattr
-	_chattr '' "$6" "$1"
-}
-
-_H() {
-	# Recursively set file/directory attributes. Lines of this type accept
-	# shell-syle globs in place of normal path names.
-	# Does not follow symlinks
-	_chattr -R "$6" "$1"
-}
-
-_L() {
-	# Create a symlink if it doesn't exist yet
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4 age=$5 arg=$6
-	[ ! -e "$path" ] && dryrun_or_real ln -s "$arg" "$path"
-	_restorecon "$path"
-}
-
-_p() {
-	# Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it doesn't exist yet
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4
-
-	[ $CREATE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	if [ ! -p "$path" ]; then
-		dryrun_or_real $CHECKPATH -pq -m $mode -o "$uid:$gid" "$path"
-	fi
-}
-
-_x() {
-	# Ignore a path during cleaning. Use this type to exclude paths from clean-up as
-	# controlled with the Age parameter. Note that lines of this type do not
-	# influence the effect of r or R lines. Lines of this type accept shell-style
-	# globs in place of of normal path names.
-	:
-	# XXX: we don't implement this
-}
-
-_X() {
-	# Ignore a path during cleanup. Use this type to prevent path
-	# removal as controled with the age parameter. Note that if path is
-	# a directory, the content of the directory is not excluded from
-	# clean-up, only the directory itself.
-	# Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.
-	:
-	# XXX: we don't implement this
-}
-
-_r() {
-	# Remove a file or directory if it exists. This may not be used to remove
-	# non-empty directories, use R for that. Lines of this type accept shell-style
-	# globs in place of normal path names.
-	local path
-	local paths=$1
-
-	[ $REMOVE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	for path in ${paths}; do
-		if [ -f "$path" ]; then
-			dryrun_or_real rm -f "$path"
-		elif [ -d "$path" ]; then
-			dryrun_or_real rmdir "$path"
-		fi
-	done
-}
-
-_R() {
-	# Recursively remove a path and all its subdirectories (if it is a directory).
-	# Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.
-	local path
-	local paths=$1
-
-	[ $REMOVE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	for path in ${paths}; do
-		[ -d "$path" ] && dryrun_or_real rm -rf --one-file-system "$path"
-	done
-}
-
-_w() {
-	# Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists.
-	local path=$1 mode=$2 uid=$3 gid=$4 age=$5 arg=$6
-	if [ -f "$path" ]; then
-		if [ $DRYRUN -eq 1 ]; then
-			echo "echo \"$arg\" >>\"$path\""
-		else
-			echo "$arg" >>"$path"
-		fi
-	fi
-}
-
-_z() {
-	# Set ownership, access mode and relabel security context of a file or
-	# directory if it exists. Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in
-	# place of normal path names.
-	[ $CREATE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	relabel "$@"
-}
-
-_Z() {
-	# Recursively set ownership, access mode and relabel security context of a
-	# path and all its subdirectories (if it is a directory). Lines of this type
-	# accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.
-	[ $CREATE -gt 0 ] || return 0
-
-	CHOPTS=-R relabel "$@"
-}
-
-BOOT=0 CREATE=0 REMOVE=0 CLEAN=0 VERBOSE=0 DRYRUN=0 error=0 LINENO=0
-EXCLUDE=
-PREFIX=
-FILES=
-
-while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
-	case $1 in
-		--boot) BOOT=1 ;;
-		--create) CREATE=1 ;;
-		--remove) REMOVE=1 ;;
-		--clean) CLEAN=1 ;; # TODO: Not implemented
-		--verbose) VERBOSE=1 ;;
-		--dryrun|--dry-run) DRYRUN=1 ;;
-		--exclude-prefix=*) EXCLUDE="${EXCLUDE}${1##--exclude-prefix=} " ;;
-		--prefix=*) PREFIX="${PREFIX}${1##--prefix=} " ;;
-		-*) invalid_option "$1" ;;
-		*) FILES="${FILES} $1"
-	esac
-	shift
-done
-
-if [ $(( CLEAN )) -eq 1 ] ; then
-	printf '%s clean mode is not implemented\n' "${0##*/}"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ "$CREATE$REMOVE" = '00' ]; then
-	printf 'usage: %s [--exclude-prefix=path] [--prefix=path] [--boot] [--create] [--remove] [--clean] [--verbose] [--dry-run]\n' "${0##*/}"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-# XXX: The harcoding of /usr/lib/ is an explicit choice by upstream
-tmpfiles_dirs='/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d /run/tmpfiles.d /etc/tmpfiles.d'
-tmpfiles_basenames=''
-
-if [ -z "${FILES}" ]; then
-	# Build a list of sorted unique basenames
-	# directories declared later in the tmpfiles_d array will override earlier
-	# directories, on a per file basename basis.
-	# `/etc/tmpfiles.d/foo.conf' supersedes `/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/foo.conf'.
-	# `/run/tmpfiles/foo.conf' will always be read after `/etc/tmpfiles.d/bar.conf'
-	for d in ${tmpfiles_dirs} ; do
-		[ -d $d ] && for f in ${d}/*.conf ; do
-			case "${f##*/}" in
-				systemd.conf|systemd-*.conf) continue;;
-			esac
-			[ -f $f ] && tmpfiles_basenames="${tmpfiles_basenames}\n${f##*/}"
-		done # for f in ${d}
-	done # for d in ${tmpfiles_dirs}
-	FILES="$(printf "${tmpfiles_basenames}\n" | sort -u )"
-fi
-
-tmpfiles_d=''
-
-for b in ${FILES} ; do
-	if [ "${b##*/}" != "${b}" ]; then
-		# The user specified a path on the command line
-		# Just pass it through unaltered
-		tmpfiles_d="${tmpfiles_d} ${b}"
-	else
-		real_f=''
-		for d in $tmpfiles_dirs ; do
-			f=${d}/${b}
-			[ -f "${f}" ] && real_f=$f
-		done
-		[ -f "${real_f}" ] && tmpfiles_d="${tmpfiles_d} ${real_f}"
-	fi
-done
-
-error=0
-
-# loop through the gathered fragments, sorted globally by filename.
-# `/run/tmpfiles/foo.conf' will always be read after `/etc/tmpfiles.d/bar.conf'
-FILE=
-for FILE in $tmpfiles_d ; do
-	LINENUM=0
-
-	### FILE FORMAT ###
-	# XXX: We ignore the 'Age' parameter
-	# 1    2              3    4    5    6   7
-	# Cmd  Path           Mode UID  GID  Age Argument
-	# d    /run/user      0755 root root 10d -
-	# Mode, UID, GID, Age, Argument may be omitted!
-	# If Cmd ends with !, the line is only processed if --boot is passed
-
-	# XXX: Upstream says whitespace is NOT permitted in the Path argument.
-	# But IS allowed when globs are expanded for the x/r/R/z/Z types.
-	while read cmd path mode uid gid age arg; do
-		LINENUM=$(( LINENUM+1 ))
-		FORCE=0
-
-		# Unless we have both command and path, skip this line.
-		if [ -z "$cmd" -o -z "$path" ]; then
-			continue
-		fi
-
-		case $cmd in
-			\#*) continue ;;
-		esac
-
-		while [ ${#cmd} -gt 1 ]; do
-			case $cmd in
-				*!) cmd=${cmd%!}; [ "$BOOT" -eq "1" ] || continue 2 ;;
-				*+) cmd=${cmd%+}; FORCE=1; ;;
-				*) warninvalid ; continue 2 ;;
-			esac
-		done
-
-		# whine about invalid entries
-		case $cmd in
-			f|F|w|d|D|v|p|L|c|C|b|x|X|r|R|z|Z|q|Q|h|H) ;;
-			*) warninvalid ; continue ;;
-		esac
-
-		# fall back on defaults when parameters are passed as '-'
-		if [ "$mode" = '-' -o "$mode" = '' ]; then
-			case "$cmd" in
-				p|f|F) mode=0644 ;;
-				d|D|v) mode=0755 ;;
-				C|z|Z|x|r|R|L) ;;
-			esac
-		fi
-
-		[ "$uid" = '-' -o "$uid" = '' ] && uid=0
-		[ "$gid" = '-' -o "$gid" = '' ] && gid=0
-		[ "$age" = '-' -o "$age" = '' ] && age=0
-		[ "$arg" = '-' -o "$arg" = '' ] && arg=''
-		set -- "$path" "$mode" "$uid" "$gid" "$age" "$arg"
-
-		[ -n "$EXCLUDE" ] && checkprefix $path $EXCLUDE && continue
-		[ -n "$PREFIX" ] && ! checkprefix $path $PREFIX && continue
-
-		if [ $FORCE -gt 0 ]; then
-			case $cmd in
-				p|L|c|b) [ -f "$path" ] && dryrun_or_real rm -f "$path"
-			esac
-		fi
-
-		[ "$VERBOSE" -eq "1" ] && echo _$cmd "$@"
-		_$cmd "$@"
-		rc=$?
-		if [ "${DRYRUN}" -eq "0" ]; then
-			[ $rc -ne 0 ] && error=$((error + 1))
-		fi
-	done <$FILE
-done
-
-exit $error
-
-# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 noet ft=sh: