diff --git a/package/x11/imagemagick/imagemagick.conf b/package/x11/imagemagick/imagemagick.conf
index ae6b11b60..171fc3e99 100644
--- a/package/x11/imagemagick/imagemagick.conf
+++ b/package/x11/imagemagick/imagemagick.conf
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ EOT
 var_append configprefix " " 'CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/libxml2"'
 confopt="$confopt -disable-ltdl-install --enable-shared --with-modules"
 confopt="$confopt --enable-lzw --enable-16bit-pixel --with-x "
- 
+
+# don't put the modules in a :dev package
+splitreg 45 . '/lib/.*/modules-'
+
 # Quick & Dirty hack for the perllocal problem
 . $base/package/base/perl5/perllocal_hack.sh