diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 16033ee9..0843c459 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 xbps-0.42 (???):
 
- * Get rid of system virtualpkg.d configuration files stored at
-   <prefix>/share/xbps/virtualpkg.d) and collect all virtual packages
-   directly from pkgdb. Virtual package overrides can still be defined
-   at <sysconfdir>/xbps/virtualpkg.d.
+ * Virtual packages are now collected directly from pkgdb, that means
+   that installed packages do not need to have a virtualpkg configuration
+   file in the system virtualpkg.d directory.
 
  * xbps-{install,remove}: implemented a column/wide output mode
    as requested in #63 (https://github.com/voidlinux/xbps/issues/63).
diff --git a/include/xbps.h.in b/include/xbps.h.in
index d4ecd907..0708f5c0 100644
--- a/include/xbps.h.in
+++ b/include/xbps.h.in
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@
  */
 #define XBPS_VPKG_PATH		XBPS_SYSCONF_PATH "/virtualpkg.d"
 
+/**
+ * @def XBPS_SYS_VPKG_PATH
+ * System virtualpkg PATH to store virtualpkg configuration files.
+ */
+#define XBPS_SYS_VPKG_PATH	XBPS_SYSDEFCONF_PATH "/virtualpkg.d"
+
 /**
  * @def XBPS_REPOD_PATH
  * Configuration directory to store repository configuration files.
diff --git a/lib/initend.c b/lib/initend.c
index 23e0a895..f9b9bbc5 100644
--- a/lib/initend.c
+++ b/lib/initend.c
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ xbps_init(struct xbps_handle *xhp)
 		free(buf);
 	}
 	/* process virtualpkg.d dirs */
-	if ((rv = parse_dir(xhp, cwd, NULL, XBPS_VPKG_PATH, true)) != 0)
+	if ((rv = parse_dir(xhp, cwd, XBPS_SYS_VPKG_PATH, XBPS_VPKG_PATH, true)) != 0)
 		return rv;
 
 	/* process repo.d dirs */