diff --git a/dnf/const.py.in b/dnf/const.py.in
index 5c1fef0fd5..bcadc80410 100644
--- a/dnf/const.py.in
+++ b/dnf/const.py.in
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
-import sysconfig
 
 CONF_FILENAME='/etc/dnf/dnf.conf' # :api
 CONF_AUTOMATIC_FILENAME='/etc/dnf/automatic.conf'
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ VERBOSE_LEVEL=6
 PREFIX=NAME.lower()
 PROGRAM_NAME=NAME.lower()  # Deprecated - no longer used, Argparser prints program name based on sys.argv
 PLUGINCONFPATH = '/etc/dnf/plugins'  # :api
-PLUGINPATH = '%s/dnf-plugins' % sysconfig.get_path('purelib')
+PLUGINPATH = '@PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR@/dnf-plugins'
 VERSION='@DNF_VERSION@'
 USER_AGENT = "dnf/%s" % VERSION