diff --git a/fish.spec b/fish.spec
index 0b6b040..0712f9e 100644
--- a/fish.spec
+++ b/fish.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Source0:                http://fishshell.org/files/%{version}/fish-%{version}.ta
 # Emailed to upstream
 Patch0:                 fish-1.23.0-ARG_MAX.patch
 BuildRoot:              %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-Requires:               xsel
+Suggests:               xsel
 BuildRequires:          ncurses-devel gettext groff doxygen
 BuildRequires:          autoconf
 BuildRequires:          xorg-x11-proto-devel libX11-devel libXt-devel libXext-devel
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ is simple but incompatible with other shell languages.
 # The docdir argument is to make the name of the documentation
 # directory 'fish-VERSION', instead of the default, which is simply
 # 'fish'.
-%configure docdir=%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}-%{version}
+%configure --without-xsel docdir=%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}-%{version}
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ fi
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc %{_datadir}/doc/%{name}-%{version}
 %{_mandir}/man1/*.1*
-%exclude %{_bindir}/xsel
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man1/count*
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man1/alias*
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man1/bg*
@@ -90,7 +89,6 @@ fi
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man1/type*
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man1/ulimit*
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man1/umask*
-%exclude %{_mandir}/man1/xsel*
 %attr(0755,root,root) %{_bindir}/fish
 %attr(0755,root,root) %{_bindir}/fishd
 %attr(0755,root,root) %{_bindir}/fish_pager
@@ -102,8 +100,9 @@ fi
 
 %changelog
 * Fri Jul 03 2009 Lorenzo Villani <lvillani@binaryhelix.net> - 1.23.1-3
+- Pass --without-xsel to configure
 - Fix file list
-- Don't use own copy of xsel
+- Suggest xsel but don't Require it
 
 * Fri Jul 03 2009 Lorenzo Villani <lvillani@binaryhelix.net> - 1.23.1-2
 - rebuilt