diff --git a/man/rules/meson.build b/man/rules/meson.build
index 38a0749fc7..d8862324db 100644
--- a/man/rules/meson.build
+++ b/man/rules/meson.build
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ manpages = [
  ['systemd-sysext',
   '8',
   ['systemd-confext', 'systemd-confext.service', 'systemd-sysext.service'],
-  ''],
+  'ENABLE_SYSEXT'],
  ['systemd-system-update-generator', '8', [], ''],
  ['systemd-system.conf',
   '5',
diff --git a/man/systemd-sysext.xml b/man/systemd-sysext.xml
index df1f10aeef..e086796411 100644
--- a/man/systemd-sysext.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-sysext.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
 <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later -->
 
-<refentry id="systemd-sysext"
+<refentry id="systemd-sysext" conditional='ENABLE_SYSEXT'
     xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
 
   <refentryinfo>