diff --git a/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md b/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
index b4c0b87610c4..4f5cd4aa11fc 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
@@ -20,11 +20,9 @@
 - `gentium` package now provides `Gentium-*.ttf` files, and not `GentiumPlus-*.ttf` files like before. The font identifiers `Gentium Plus*` are available in the `gentium-plus` package, and if you want to use the more recently updated package `gentium` [by sil](https://software.sil.org/gentium/), you should update your configuration files to use the `Gentium` font identifier.
 - `space-orbit` package has been removed due to lack of upstream maintenance. Debian upstream stopped tracking it in 2011.
 - `command-not-found` package is now disabled by default; it works only for nix-channels based systems, and requires setup for it to work.
-
 - Derivations setting both `separateDebugInfo` and one of `allowedReferences`, `allowedRequistes`, `disallowedReferences` or `disallowedRequisites` must now set `__structuredAttrs` to `true`. The effect of reference whitelisting or blacklisting will be disabled on the `debug` output created by `separateDebugInfo`.
-
 - `victoriametrics` no longer contains VictoriaLogs components. These have been separated into the new package `victorialogs`.
-
+- `kbd` package's `outputs` now include a `man` and `scripts` outputs. The `unicode_start` and `unicode_stop` Bash scripts are now part of the `scripts` output, allowing most usages of the `kbd` package to not pull in `bash`.
 - `gnome-keyring` no longer ships with an SSH agent anymore because it has been deprecated upstream. You should use `gcr_4` instead, which provides the same features. More information on why this was done can be found on [the relevant GCR upstream PR](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcr/-/merge_requests/67).
 
 - `stdenv.mkDerivation` and other derivation builders that use it no longer allow the value of `env` to be anything but an attribute set, for the purpose of setting environment variables that are available to the [builder](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/latest/store/derivation/#builder) process. An environment variable called `env` can still be provided by means of `mkDerivation { env.env = ...; }`, though we recommend to use a more specific name than "env".
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/kb/kbd/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/kb/kbd/package.nix
index d6e0b28ba3c0..f0d7c842bc6e 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/kb/kbd/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/kb/kbd/package.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   flex,
   check,
   pam,
+  bash,
   coreutils,
   gzip,
   bzip2,
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "out"
     "vlock"
     "dev"
+    "scripts"
+    "man"
   ];
 
   configureFlags =
@@ -78,15 +81,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   postInstall = ''
-    for i in $out/bin/unicode_{start,stop}; do
-      substituteInPlace "$i" \
-        --replace /usr/bin/tty ${coreutils}/bin/tty
+    for s in unicode_{start,stop}; do
+      substituteInPlace ''${!outputBin}/bin/$s \
+        --replace-fail /usr/bin/tty ${coreutils}/bin/tty
+      moveToOutput "bin/$s" "$scripts"
     done
   '';
 
   buildInputs = [
     check
     pam
+    bash
   ];
   NIX_LDFLAGS = lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic "-laudit";
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -94,6 +99,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     pkg-config
     flex
   ];
+  strictDeps = true;
 
   passthru.tests = {
     inherit (nixosTests) keymap kbd-setfont-decompress kbd-update-search-paths-patch;