diff --git a/gnu/packages/sequoia.scm b/gnu/packages/sequoia.scm
index 811beb823a..16488ca073 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/sequoia.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/sequoia.scm
@@ -19,12 +19,14 @@
 
 (define-module (gnu packages sequoia)
   #:use-module (guix build-system cargo)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
   #:use-module (guix download)
   #:use-module (guix git-download)
   #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
   #:use-module (guix packages)
   #:use-module (guix utils)
   #:use-module (gnu packages)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages base)  ; glibc
   #:use-module (gnu packages check) ;; python-pytest
   #:use-module (gnu packages crates-io)
   #:use-module (gnu packages libffi) ;; python-cffi
@@ -35,8 +37,6 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages python)
   #:use-module (gnu packages python-xyz) ;; python-setuptools
   #:use-module (gnu packages rust)
-  #:use-module (gnu packages serialization)
-  #:use-module (gnu packages sqlite)
   #:use-module (gnu packages tls))
 
 (define-public rust-sequoia-autocrypt-0.23
@@ -469,176 +469,45 @@ even go away.")
 (define-public sequoia
   (package
     (name "sequoia")
-    (version "1.1.0")
-    (source
-     (origin
-       (method git-fetch)
-       (uri (git-reference
-             (url "https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia.git")
-             (commit (string-append "openpgp/v" version))))
-       (sha256
-        (base32 "0knkm0nw1h4ww51vks4jnnp1yc45llfi7j0i70f6vf2bcknnbmci"))
-       (file-name (git-file-name name version))))
-    (build-system cargo-build-system)
+    (version "1.6.0")
+    (source #f)
+    (build-system trivial-build-system)
     (outputs '("out" "python"))
-    (native-inputs
-     (list clang pkg-config python-pytest python-pytest-runner
-           python-wrapper))
     (inputs
-     (list capnproto
-           gmp
-           nettle
-           openssl
-           python
-           python-cffi
-           sqlite))
+     `(("glibc" ,glibc)  ;; for ldconfig in make-dynamic-linker-cache
+       ("libsequoia" ,libsequoia)
+       ("libsequoia:python" ,libsequoia "python")
+       ("sequoia-sq" ,sequoia-sq)
+       ("sequoia-sqv" ,sequoia-sqv)))
     (arguments
-     `(#:tests? #f ;; building the tests requires 9.7GB total
-       #:rust ,rust
-       #:cargo-inputs
-       (("rust-anyhow" ,rust-anyhow-1)
-        ("rust-backtrace" ,rust-backtrace-0.3)
-        ("rust-base64" ,rust-base64-0.13)
-        ;;("rust-buffered-reader" included
-        ("rust-bzip2" ,rust-bzip2-0.4)
-        ("rust-capnp" ,rust-capnp-0.13)
-        ("rust-capnp-rpc" ,rust-capnp-rpc-0.13)
-        ("rust-capnpc" ,rust-capnpc-0.13)
-        ("rust-chrono" ,rust-chrono-0.4)  ;; for sqv, sop
-        ("rust-clap" ,rust-clap-2)        ;; for sqv
-        ("rust-colored" ,rust-colored-1.9.1)
-        ("rust-crossterm" ,rust-crossterm-0.13)
-        ("rust-ctor" ,rust-ctor-0.1)
-        ("rust-dirs" ,rust-dirs-2)
-        ("rust-dyn-clone" ,rust-dyn-clone-1)
-        ("rust-ed25519-dalek" ,rust-ed25519-dalek-1)
-        ("rust-eax" ,rust-eax-0.3)
-        ;;("rust-failure" included
-        ("rust-filetime" ,rust-filetime-0.2)
-        ("rust-flate2" ,rust-flate2-1)
-        ("rust-fs2" ,rust-fs2-0.4)
-        ("rust-futures" ,rust-futures-0.3)
-        ("rust-futures-util" ,rust-futures-util-0.3)
-        ("rust-http" ,rust-http-0.2)
-        ("rust-hyper" ,rust-hyper-0.13)
-        ("rust-hyper-tls" ,rust-hyper-tls-0.4)
-        ("rust-idna" ,rust-idna-0.2)
-        ("rust-itertools" ,rust-itertools-0.9) ;; for sq
-        ("rust-lalrpop" ,rust-lalrpop-0.19)
-        ("rust-lalrpop-util" ,rust-lalrpop-util-0.19)
-        ("rust-lazy-static" ,rust-lazy-static-1)
-        ("rust-libc" ,rust-libc-0.2)
-        ("rust-memsec" ,rust-memsec-0.6)
-        ("rust-native-tls" ,rust-native-tls-0.2)
-        ("rust-nettle" ,rust-nettle-7)
-        ("rust-num-bigint-dig" ,rust-num-bigint-dig-0.6)
-        ("rust-parity-tokio-ipc" ,rust-parity-tokio-ipc-0.4)
-        ("rust-percent-encoding" ,rust-percent-encoding-2)
-        ("rust-prettytable-rs" ,rust-prettytable-rs-0.8)  ;; for sq
-        ("rust-proc-macro2" ,rust-proc-macro2-1)
-        ("rust-quickcheck" ,rust-quickcheck-0.9)
-        ("rust-rand" ,rust-rand-0.7)
-        ("rust-regex" ,rust-regex-1)
-        ("rust-rusqlite" ,rust-rusqlite-0.24)
-        ("rust-sha1collisiondetection" ,rust-sha1collisiondetection-0.2)
-        ("rust-socket2", rust-socket2-0.3)
-        ("rust-structopt" ,rust-structopt-0.3) ;; for sop
-        ("rust-tempfile" ,rust-tempfile-3) ;; for sq
-        ("rust-thiserror" ,rust-thiserror-1)
-        ("rust-tokio" ,rust-tokio-0.2)
-        ("rust-tokio-core" ,rust-tokio-core-0.1)
-        ("rust-unicode-normalization" ,rust-unicode-normalization-0.1)
-        ("rust-url" ,rust-url-2)
-        ("rust-win-crypto-ng" ,rust-win-crypto-ng-0.4)
-        ("rust-winapi" ,rust-winapi-0.3)
-        ("rust-zbase32" ,rust-zbase32-0.1))
-       #:cargo-development-inputs
-       (("rust-assert-cli" ,rust-assert-cli-0.6) ;; dev-dep for for sq, sqv
-        ("rust-bindgen" ,rust-bindgen-0.51) ;; FIXME for nettle-sys and rusqlite
-        ;;("rust-lalrpop" ,rust-lalrpop-0.19)
-        ("rust-quickcheck" ,rust-quickcheck-0.9)
-        ("rust-rand" ,rust-rand-0.7)
-        ("rust-rpassword" ,rust-rpassword-5))
-       #:phases
-       (modify-phases %standard-phases
-         ;; Run make instead of using the rust build system, as
-         ;; suggested by the installation instructions
-         (replace 'build (lambda _ (invoke "make" "build-release") #t))
-         (delete 'package)  ;; cargo can't package a multi-crate workspace
-         (replace 'check
-           (lambda* (#:key tests?  #:allow-other-keys)
-             (if tests?
-                 (invoke "make" "check")
-                 #t)))
-         (replace 'install (lambda _ (invoke "make" "install") #t))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-rand-dependency
-           (lambda _
-             (substitute* "ipc/Cargo.toml"
-               ;; required: enable rand::rngs::OsRng in rand >= 0.8
-               (("(^rand =.*,) default-features = false(.*)" _ a b)
-                (string-append a " features = [\"getrandom\"]" b)))
-             #t))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-permissions
-           (lambda _
-             (chmod "sq/src/sq-usage.rs" #o644)
-             (chmod "sqv/src/sqv-usage.rs" #o644)
-             #t))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-environment
-           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
-             ;; adjust prefix
-             (setenv "PREFIX" (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
-             ;; fix install script detection
-             (setenv "INSTALL" "install")
-             #t))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-fo-python-output
-           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
-             (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
-                   (pyout (assoc-ref outputs "python")))
-               (substitute* "ffi/lang/python/Makefile"
-                 ;; adjust prefix for python package
-                 (("PREFIX\\s*\\??=.*")
-                  (string-append "PREFIX = " pyout "\n"))
-                 ;; fix rpath to include the main package
-                 (("\\WLDFLAGS=" text)
-                  (string-append text "'-Wl,-rpath=" out "/lib '"))
-                 ;; make setuptools install into the prefix, see
-                 ;; guix/build/python-build-system.scm for explanation
-                 (("\\ssetup.py\\s+install\\s")
-                  " setup.py install --root=/ --single-version-externally-managed "))
-               #t)))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-pkgconfig-file-substitutes
-           ;; preempt Makefiles replacing PREFIX by pwd
-           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
-             (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
-               (substitute* "ffi/sequoia.pc.in"
-                 (("PREFIX") out))
-               (substitute* "openpgp-ffi/sequoia-openpgp.pc.in"
-                 (("PREFIX") out))
-               #t)))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'keep-SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
-           (lambda _
-               ;; preempt Makefiles replacing SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
-               (substitute* "Makefile"
-                 (("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH\\s=" line)
-                  (string-append "#" line)))
-             #t))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'set-missing-env-vars
-           (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
-             ;; FIXME: why do we need to set this here?
-             (setenv "LIBCLANG_PATH"
-                     (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "clang") "/lib"))
-             #t))
-         (add-after 'unpack 'unpin-deps
-           (lambda _
-             ;; As the comment in that file explains, upstream encourages
-             ;; unpinning, as the pinned version is only to make sure the crate
-             ;; compiles on older versions of rustc
-             (substitute* '("openpgp/Cargo.toml" "sq/Cargo.toml")
-               (("= \"=") "= \""))
-             #t)))))
+     `(#:modules ((guix build utils) (guix build gnu-build-system)
+                  (guix build gremlin) (guix elf))
+       #:builder
+       (begin
+         (use-modules (guix build utils) (guix build gnu-build-system))
+         (let ((make-dynamic-linker-cache
+                (assoc-ref %standard-phases 'make-dynamic-linker-cache))
+               (ld.so.cache
+                (string-append (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/etc/ld.so.cache")))
+           (copy-recursively (assoc-ref %build-inputs "libsequoia")
+                             (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
+           (copy-recursively (assoc-ref %build-inputs "sequoia-sq")
+                             (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
+           (delete-file ld.so.cache)
+           (copy-recursively (assoc-ref %build-inputs "sequoia-sqv")
+                             (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
+           (delete-file ld.so.cache)
+           (copy-recursively (assoc-ref %build-inputs "libsequoia:python")
+                             (assoc-ref %outputs "python"))
+           (setenv "PATH"
+                   (string-append (getenv "PATH") ":"
+                                  (assoc-ref %build-inputs "glibc") "/sbin"))
+           (make-dynamic-linker-cache #:outputs %outputs)
+         #t))))
     (home-page "https://sequoia-pgp.org")
-    (synopsis "New OpenPGP implementation")
-    (description "Sequoia is a new OpenPGP implementation.  It consists of
-several crates, providing both a low-level and a high-level API for dealing
-with OpenPGP data.")
-    (license license:gpl2+)))
+    (synopsis "New OpenPGP implementation (meta-package)")
+    (description "Sequoia is a new OpenPGP implementation, written in Rust,
+consisting of several Rust crates/packages.  This Guix meta-package combines
+these packages into a single one for convenience.  Anyhow, you should not
+depend other packages on this one avoid excessive compile-times for users.")
+    (license license:lgpl2.0+)))
