diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
index 8dfd33ebc81d..87e7396c496c 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
@@ -804,6 +804,22 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/";
     description = "A system and service manager for Linux";
+    longDescription = ''
+      systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It
+      provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the
+      rest of the system. systemd provides aggressive parallelization
+      capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,
+      offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux
+      control groups, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an
+      elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. systemd
+      supports SysV and LSB init scripts and works as a replacement for
+      sysvinit. Other parts include a logging daemon, utilities to control basic
+      system configuration like the hostname, date, locale, maintain a list of
+      logged-in users and running containers and virtual machines, system
+      accounts, runtime directories and settings, and daemons to manage simple
+      network configuration, network time synchronization, log forwarding, and
+      name resolution.
+    '';
     license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
     platforms = platforms.linux;
     badPlatforms = [ lib.systems.inspect.platformPatterns.isStatic ];