diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 106351c40a..97b8cddaef 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ Requires: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: libvirt-daemon-driver-network = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: libvirt-client = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: libvirt-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 
 # All build-time requirements. Run-time requirements are
 # listed against each sub-RPM
@@ -430,8 +431,8 @@ Group: Development/Libraries
 # All runtime requirements for the libvirt package (runtime requrements
 # for subpackages are listed later in those subpackages)
 
-# The client side, i.e. shared libs and virsh are in a subpackage
-Requires: %{name}-client = %{version}-%{release}
+# The client side, i.e. shared libs are in a subpackage
+Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 
 # for modprobe of pci devices
 Requires: module-init-tools
@@ -822,13 +823,11 @@ capabilities of VirtualBox
 %endif
 
 %package client
-Summary: Client side library and utilities of the libvirt library
+Summary: Client side utilities of the libvirt library
 Group: Development/Libraries
+Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: readline
 Requires: ncurses
-# So remote clients can access libvirt over SSH tunnel
-# (client invokes 'nc' against the UNIX socket on the server)
-Requires: nc
 # Needed by /usr/libexec/libvirt-guests.sh script.
 Requires: gettext
 # Needed by virt-pki-validate script.
@@ -837,21 +836,31 @@ Requires: gnutls-utils
 # Needed for probing the power management features of the host.
 Requires: pm-utils
 %endif
+
+%description client
+The client binaries needed to access the virtualization
+capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
+
+%package libs
+Summary: Client side libraries
+Group: Development/Libraries
+# So remote clients can access libvirt over SSH tunnel
+# (client invokes 'nc' against the UNIX socket on the server)
+Requires: nc
 Requires: cyrus-sasl
 # Not technically required, but makes 'out-of-box' config
 # work correctly & doesn't have onerous dependencies
 Requires: cyrus-sasl-md5
 
-%description client
-Shared libraries and client binaries needed to access to the
-virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
+%description libs
+Shared libraries for accessing the libvirt daemon.
 
 %if %{with_wireshark}
 %package wireshark
 Summary: Wireshark dissector plugin for libvirt RPC transactions
 Group: Development/Libraries
 Requires: wireshark >= 1.12.6-4
-Requires: %{name}-client = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 
 %description wireshark
 Wireshark dissector plugin for better analysis of libvirt RPC traffic.
@@ -861,7 +870,7 @@ Wireshark dissector plugin for better analysis of libvirt RPC traffic.
 %package login-shell
 Summary: Login shell for connecting users to an LXC container
 Group: Development/Libraries
-Requires: %{name}-client = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 
 %description login-shell
 Provides the set-uid virt-login-shell binary that is used to
@@ -872,7 +881,7 @@ namespaces.
 %package devel
 Summary: Libraries, includes, etc. to compile with the libvirt library
 Group: Development/Libraries
-Requires: %{name}-client = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: pkgconfig
 
 %description devel
@@ -886,7 +895,7 @@ Requires: sanlock >= 2.4
 #for virt-sanlock-cleanup require augeas
 Requires: augeas
 Requires: %{name}-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires: %{name}-client = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 
 %description lock-sanlock
 Includes the Sanlock lock manager plugin for the QEMU
@@ -1741,11 +1750,7 @@ exit 0
 %attr(0755, root, root) %{_libexecdir}/libvirt_sanlock_helper
 %endif
 
-%files client -f %{name}.lang
-%doc COPYING COPYING.LESSER
-
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/libvirt.conf
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/libvirt-admin.conf
+%files client
 %{_mandir}/man1/virsh.1*
 %{_mandir}/man1/virt-admin.1*
 %{_mandir}/man1/virt-xml-validate.1*
@@ -1756,17 +1761,31 @@ exit 0
 %{_bindir}/virt-xml-validate
 %{_bindir}/virt-pki-validate
 %{_bindir}/virt-host-validate
-%{_libdir}/libvirt.so.*
-%{_libdir}/libvirt-qemu.so.*
-%{_libdir}/libvirt-lxc.so.*
-%{_libdir}/libvirt-admin.so.*
 
 %{_datadir}/systemtap/tapset/libvirt_probes*.stp
 %{_datadir}/systemtap/tapset/libvirt_qemu_probes*.stp
 %{_datadir}/systemtap/tapset/libvirt_functions.stp
 
+
+%if %{with_systemd}
+%{_unitdir}/libvirt-guests.service
+%else
+%{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/libvirt-guests
+%endif
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/libvirt-guests
+%attr(0755, root, root) %{_libexecdir}/libvirt-guests.sh
+
+%files libs -f %{name}.lang
+%doc COPYING COPYING.LESSER
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/libvirt.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/libvirt-admin.conf
+%{_libdir}/libvirt.so.*
+%{_libdir}/libvirt-qemu.so.*
+%{_libdir}/libvirt-lxc.so.*
+%{_libdir}/libvirt-admin.so.*
 %dir %{_datadir}/libvirt/
 %dir %{_datadir}/libvirt/schemas/
+%dir %attr(0755, root, root) %{_localstatedir}/lib/libvirt/
 
 %{_datadir}/libvirt/schemas/basictypes.rng
 %{_datadir}/libvirt/schemas/capability.rng
@@ -1787,15 +1806,6 @@ exit 0
 %{_datadir}/libvirt/cpu_map.xml
 %{_datadir}/libvirt/libvirtLogo.png
 
-%if %{with_systemd}
-%{_unitdir}/libvirt-guests.service
-%else
-%{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/libvirt-guests
-%endif
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/libvirt-guests
-%attr(0755, root, root) %{_libexecdir}/libvirt-guests.sh
-%dir %attr(0755, root, root) %{_localstatedir}/lib/libvirt/
-
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sasl2/libvirt.conf
 
 %if %{with_wireshark}