diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 474ef09..5b9ffe7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -65,7 +65,11 @@
     "appId": "im.riot.app",
     "electronVersion": "7.1.3",
     "files": [
-      "node_modules/**",
+      "package.json",
+      {
+        "from": ".hak/hakModules",
+        "to": "node_modules"
+      },
       "src/**"
     ],
     "extraResources": [
diff --git a/scripts/hak/fetch.js b/scripts/hak/fetch.js
index 7714ad0..27727cc 100644
--- a/scripts/hak/fetch.js
+++ b/scripts/hak/fetch.js
@@ -105,7 +105,15 @@ async function fetch(hakEnv, moduleInfo) {
     });
 
     // also extract another copy to the output directory at this point
-    // nb. we do not yarn install in the output copy
+    // nb. we do not yarn install in the output copy: we could install in
+    // production mode to get only runtime dependencies and not devDependencies,
+    // but usually native modules come with dependencies that are needed for
+    // building/fetching the native modules (eg. node-pre-gyp) rather than
+    // actually used at runtime: we do not want to bundle these into our app.
+    // We therefore just install no dependencies at all, and accept that any
+    // actual runtime dependencies will have to be added to the main app's
+    // dependencies. We can't tell what dependencies are real runtime deps
+    // and which are just used for native module building.
     await mkdirp(moduleInfo.moduleOutDir);
     await tar.x({
         file: tarballFile,
diff --git a/scripts/hak/index.js b/scripts/hak/index.js
index cfb75c0..3c02880 100644
--- a/scripts/hak/index.js
+++ b/scripts/hak/index.js
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ async function main() {
             moduleHakDir: path.join(prefix, 'hak', dep),
             moduleDotHakDir: path.join(hakEnv.dotHakDir, dep),
             moduleBuildDir: path.join(hakEnv.dotHakDir, dep, 'build'),
-            moduleOutDir: path.join(hakEnv.dotHakDir, dep, 'out'),
+            moduleOutDir: path.join(hakEnv.dotHakDir, 'hakModules', dep),
             nodeModuleBinDir: path.join(hakEnv.dotHakDir, dep, 'build', 'node_modules', '.bin'),
             depPrefix: path.join(hakEnv.dotHakDir, dep, 'opt'),
             scripts: {},