diff --git a/sysutils/accountsservice/Makefile b/sysutils/accountsservice/Makefile
index e4b92dbde119a..734b439d2b9ae 100644
--- a/sysutils/accountsservice/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/accountsservice/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 PORTNAME=	accountsservice
 PORTVERSION=	23.13.9
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://www.freedesktop.org/software/${PORTNAME}/
 
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ BUILD_DEPENDS=	dbus>0:devel/dbus
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libpolkit-gobject-1.so:sysutils/polkit \
 		libconsolekit.so:sysutils/consolekit2
 
-USES=		cpe gettext gnome localbase:ldflags meson pkgconfig tar:xz
+USES=		cpe gettext gnome meson pkgconfig tar:xz
 CPE_VENDOR=	freedesktop
 USE_GNOME=	glib20 intltool libxslt introspection:build
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
diff --git a/sysutils/accountsservice/files/patch-meson.build b/sysutils/accountsservice/files/patch-meson.build
index 0c44fe80183b8..4149f6c07630a 100644
--- a/sysutils/accountsservice/files/patch-meson.build
+++ b/sysutils/accountsservice/files/patch-meson.build
@@ -8,3 +8,16 @@
    config_h.set_quoted('PATH_WTMP', path_wtmp)
  endif
  
+@@ -159,11 +158,7 @@ polkit_gobject_dep = dependency('polkit-gobject-1')
+ # salt drawn from secure system ressources with at least 128 bits.
+ # (96 bits for sha512crypt, as more is not supported by this method, since
+ # the effectively used maximum is 16 base64-encoded characters)
+-crypt_dep = dependency('libxcrypt', required: false, version: '>= 4')
+-config_h.set('HAVE_CRYPT_GENSALT', crypt_dep.found())
+-if not crypt_dep.found()
+-  crypt_dep = cc.find_library('crypt')
+-endif
++crypt_dep = cc.find_library('crypt')
+ 
+ dbus_dep = dependency('dbus-1')
+ if dbus_dep.version().version_compare('>=1.9.18')