diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix b/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix
index bcdf7d6512d5..7e012dee02cb 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix
@@ -4,15 +4,29 @@ let
   cfg = config.services.earlyoom;
 
   inherit (lib)
-    mkDefault mkEnableOption mkIf mkOption types
-    mkRemovedOptionModule literalExpression
-    escapeShellArg concatStringsSep optional optionalString;
-
+    concatStringsSep
+    escapeShellArg
+    literalExpression
+    mkDefault
+    mkEnableOption
+    mkIf
+    mkOption
+    mkPackageOption
+    mkRemovedOptionModule
+    optionalString
+    optionals
+    types;
 in
 {
+  meta = {
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ AndersonTorres ];
+  };
+
   options.services.earlyoom = {
     enable = mkEnableOption "early out of memory killing";
 
+    package = mkPackageOption pkgs "earlyoom" { };
+
     freeMemThreshold = mkOption {
       type = types.ints.between 1 100;
       default = 10;
@@ -138,22 +152,21 @@ in
     systemd.services.earlyoom = {
       description = "Early OOM Daemon for Linux";
       wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-      path = optional cfg.enableNotifications pkgs.dbus;
+      path = optionals cfg.enableNotifications [ pkgs.dbus ];
       serviceConfig = {
         StandardError = "journal";
         ExecStart = concatStringsSep " " ([
-          "${pkgs.earlyoom}/bin/earlyoom"
+          "${lib.getExe cfg.package}"
           ("-m ${toString cfg.freeMemThreshold}"
-            + optionalString (cfg.freeMemKillThreshold != null) ",${toString cfg.freeMemKillThreshold}")
+           + optionalString (cfg.freeMemKillThreshold != null) ",${toString cfg.freeMemKillThreshold}")
           ("-s ${toString cfg.freeSwapThreshold}"
-            + optionalString (cfg.freeSwapKillThreshold != null) ",${toString cfg.freeSwapKillThreshold}")
+           + optionalString (cfg.freeSwapKillThreshold != null) ",${toString cfg.freeSwapKillThreshold}")
           "-r ${toString cfg.reportInterval}"
         ]
-        ++ optional cfg.enableDebugInfo "-d"
-        ++ optional cfg.enableNotifications "-n"
-        ++ optional (cfg.killHook != null) "-N ${escapeShellArg cfg.killHook}"
-        ++ cfg.extraArgs
-        );
+        ++ optionals cfg.enableDebugInfo [ "-d" ]
+        ++ optionals cfg.enableNotifications [ "-n" ]
+        ++ optionals (cfg.killHook != null) [ "-N ${escapeShellArg cfg.killHook}" ]
+        ++ cfg.extraArgs);
       };
     };
   };
diff --git a/nixos/tests/earlyoom.nix b/nixos/tests/earlyoom.nix
index 75bdf56899b3..b7850ddeaaab 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/earlyoom.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/earlyoom.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import ./make-test-python.nix ({ lib, ... }: {
   name = "earlyoom";
   meta = {
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ncfavier ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ncfavier AndersonTorres ];
   };
 
   machine = {
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/fix-dbus-path.patch b/pkgs/by-name/ea/earlyoom/0000-fix-dbus-path.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/fix-dbus-path.patch
rename to pkgs/by-name/ea/earlyoom/0000-fix-dbus-path.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ea/earlyoom/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ea/earlyoom/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba69b72b3bab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ea/earlyoom/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  installShellFiles,
+  pandoc,
+  stdenv,
+  nixosTests,
+  # Boolean flags
+  withManpage ? true,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "earlyoom";
+  version = "1.8";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "rfjakob";
+    repo = "earlyoom";
+    rev = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-jgNoYOGor2i3ngDuU3It238n5ky+AppzlRKdkwXb2AI=";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [ "out" ] ++ lib.optionals withManpage [ "man" ];
+
+  patches = [ ./0000-fix-dbus-path.patch ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = lib.optionals withManpage [
+    installShellFiles
+    pandoc
+  ];
+
+  makeFlags = [
+    "VERSION=${finalAttrs.version}"
+  ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    install -D earlyoom $out/bin/earlyoom
+  '' + lib.optionalString withManpage ''
+    installManPage earlyoom.1
+  '' + ''
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  passthru.tests = {
+    inherit (nixosTests) earlyoom;
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom";
+    description = "Early OOM Daemon for Linux";
+    longDescription = ''
+      earlyoom checks the amount of available memory and free swap up to 10
+      times a second (less often if there is a lot of free memory). By default
+      if both are below 10%, it will kill the largest process (highest
+      oom_score). The percentage value is configurable via command line
+      arguments.
+    '';
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    mainProgram = "earlyoom";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ AndersonTorres ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d1d95b4d3f95..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pandoc, installShellFiles, withManpage ? false, nixosTests }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "earlyoom";
-  version = "1.7";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "rfjakob";
-    repo = "earlyoom";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-8YcT1TTlAet7F1U9Ginda4IApNqkudegOXqm8rnRGfc=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = lib.optionals withManpage [ pandoc installShellFiles ];
-
-  patches = [ ./fix-dbus-path.patch ];
-
-  makeFlags = [ "VERSION=${version}" ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    install -D earlyoom $out/bin/earlyoom
-  '' + lib.optionalString withManpage ''
-    installManPage earlyoom.1
-  '';
-
-  passthru.tests = {
-    inherit (nixosTests) earlyoom;
-  };
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Early OOM Daemon for Linux";
-    mainProgram = "earlyoom";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a57aded5818e..f51ecb16d0b2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5130,8 +5130,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   earlybird = callPackage ../tools/security/earlybird { };
 
-  earlyoom = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/earlyoom { };
-
   easyabc = callPackage ../applications/audio/easyabc { };
 
   easycrypt = callPackage ../applications/science/logic/easycrypt {