diff --git MANIFEST.in MANIFEST.in
index 439de49..7888aee 100644
--- MANIFEST.in
+++ MANIFEST.in
@@ -1 +1 @@
-include README.rst LICENSE NOTICE HISTORY.rst test_requests.py requirements.txt requests/cacert.pem
+include README.rst LICENSE NOTICE HISTORY.rst test_requests.py requirements.txt
diff --git requests/__init__.py requests/__init__.py
index 22cd57d..b2939fa 100644
--- requests/__init__.py
+++ requests/__init__.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2014 Kenneth Reitz'
 
 # Attempt to enable urllib3's SNI support, if possible
 try:
-    from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
+    from urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
     pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3()
 except ImportError:
     pass
diff --git requests/adapters.py requests/adapters.py
index c892853..8f5d340 100644
--- requests/adapters.py
+++ requests/adapters.py
@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ and maintain connections.
 import socket
 
 from .models import Response
-from .packages.urllib3 import Retry
-from .packages.urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
-from .packages.urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
-from .packages.urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
+from urllib3 import Retry
+from urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
+from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
+from urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
 from .compat import urlparse, basestring
 from .utils import (DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH, get_encoding_from_headers,
                     prepend_scheme_if_needed, get_auth_from_url, urldefragauth)
 from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
+from urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
+from urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
 from .cookies import extract_cookies_to_jar
 from .exceptions import (ConnectionError, ConnectTimeout, ReadTimeout, SSLError,
                          ProxyError, RetryError)
diff --git requests/certs.py requests/certs.py
index 07e6475..2f2d79b 100644
--- requests/certs.py
+++ requests/certs.py
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     def where():
         """Return the preferred certificate bundle."""
-        # vendored bundle inside Requests
-        return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'cacert.pem')
+        return '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     print(where())
diff --git requests/compat.py requests/compat.py
index be5a1ed..cf866db 100644
--- requests/compat.py
+++ requests/compat.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 pythoncompat
 """
 
-from .packages import chardet
+import chardet
 
 import sys
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ if is_py2:
     import cookielib
     from Cookie import Morsel
     from StringIO import StringIO
-    from .packages.urllib3.packages.ordered_dict import OrderedDict
+    from collections import OrderedDict
 
     builtin_str = str
     bytes = str
diff --git requests/exceptions.py requests/exceptions.py
index 89135a8..b70c525 100644
--- requests/exceptions.py
+++ requests/exceptions.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ requests.exceptions
 This module contains the set of Requests' exceptions.
 
 """
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
 
 
 class RequestException(IOError):
diff --git requests/models.py requests/models.py
index 2370b67..2fa653a 100644
--- requests/models.py
+++ requests/models.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
 
 from .auth import HTTPBasicAuth
 from .cookies import cookiejar_from_dict, get_cookie_header
-from .packages.urllib3.fields import RequestField
-from .packages.urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
-from .packages.urllib3.util import parse_url
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import (
+from urllib3.fields import RequestField
+from urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
+from urllib3.util import parse_url
+from urllib3.exceptions import (
     DecodeError, ReadTimeoutError, ProtocolError)
 from .exceptions import (
     HTTPError, RequestException, MissingSchema, InvalidURL, 
diff --git requests/sessions.py requests/sessions.py
index 4f30696..03a3c36 100644
--- requests/sessions.py
+++ requests/sessions.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from .hooks import default_hooks, dispatch_hook
 from .utils import to_key_val_list, default_headers, to_native_string
 from .exceptions import (
     TooManyRedirects, InvalidSchema, ChunkedEncodingError, ContentDecodingError)
-from .packages.urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
+from urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
 from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
 
 from .adapters import HTTPAdapter
diff --git setup.py setup.py
index 813fc87..6eac79f 100755
--- setup.py
+++ setup.py
@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ if sys.argv[-1] == 'publish':
 
 packages = [
     'requests',
-    'requests.packages',
-    'requests.packages.chardet',
-    'requests.packages.urllib3',
-    'requests.packages.urllib3.packages',
-    'requests.packages.urllib3.contrib',
-    'requests.packages.urllib3.util',
-    'requests.packages.urllib3.packages.ssl_match_hostname',
 ]
 
 requires = []
@@ -43,7 +36,7 @@ setup(
     author_email='me@kennethreitz.com',
     url='http://python-requests.org',
     packages=packages,
-    package_data={'': ['LICENSE', 'NOTICE'], 'requests': ['*.pem']},
+    package_data={'': ['LICENSE', 'NOTICE'],},
     package_dir={'requests': 'requests'},
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=requires,