diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog-light/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog-light/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1a0aab3a1036
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog-light/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{
+  rsyslog,
+}:
+
+rsyslog.override {
+  withKrb5 = false;
+  withSystemd = false;
+  withJemalloc = false;
+  withMysql = false;
+  withPostgres = false;
+  withDbi = false;
+  withNetSnmp = false;
+  withUuid = false;
+  withCurl = false;
+  withGnutls = false;
+  withGcrypt = false;
+  withLognorm = false;
+  withMaxminddb = false;
+  withOpenssl = false;
+  withRelp = false;
+  withKsi = false;
+  withLogging = false;
+  withNet = false;
+  withHadoop = false;
+  withRdkafka = false;
+  withMongo = false;
+  withCzmq = false;
+  withRabbitmq = false;
+  withHiredis = false;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3b21df77052b..1852fa1b5337 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1935,33 +1935,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   roundcubePlugins = recurseIntoAttrs (callPackage ../servers/roundcube/plugins { });
 
-  rsyslog-light = rsyslog.override {
-    withKrb5 = false;
-    withSystemd = false;
-    withJemalloc = false;
-    withMysql = false;
-    withPostgres = false;
-    withDbi = false;
-    withNetSnmp = false;
-    withUuid = false;
-    withCurl = false;
-    withGnutls = false;
-    withGcrypt = false;
-    withLognorm = false;
-    withMaxminddb = false;
-    withOpenssl = false;
-    withRelp = false;
-    withKsi = false;
-    withLogging = false;
-    withNet = false;
-    withHadoop = false;
-    withRdkafka = false;
-    withMongo = false;
-    withCzmq = false;
-    withRabbitmq = false;
-    withHiredis = false;
-  };
-
   xmlsort = perlPackages.XMLFilterSort;
 
   mcelog = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/mcelog {