diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/policykit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/policykit/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index f494710be63..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/policykit/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, dbus, dbus_glib, expat, pam
-, intltool, gettext, libxslt, docbook_xsl }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "policykit-0.9";
-  
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit-0.9.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1dw05s4xqj67i3c13knzl04l8jap0kywzpav6fidpmqrximpq37l";
-  };
-  
-  buildInputs =
-    [ pkgconfig glib dbus_glib pam intltool gettext libxslt ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ expat dbus.libs ];
-
-  configureFlags = "--localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc";
-
-  installFlags = "localstatedir=$(TMPDIR)/var sysconfdir=$(out)/etc"; # keep `make install' happy
-
-  # Read policy files from /etc/PolicyKit/policy instead of
-  # /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy.  Using PACKAGE_DATA_DIR is hacky, but
-  # it works because it's only used in the C code for finding the
-  # policy directory.
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\"/etc\"";
-
-  # Needed to build the manpages.
-  XML_CATALOG_FILES = "${docbook_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml";
-  
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit;
-    description = "A toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes (obsolete)";
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c5f0e0590f3..3b3c64b6446 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8091,8 +8091,6 @@ let
 
   polkit_qt4 = callPackage ../development/libraries/polkit-qt-1 { };
 
-  policykit = callPackage ../development/libraries/policykit { };
-
   poppler = callPackage ../development/libraries/poppler { lcms = lcms2; };
 
   poppler_min = poppler.override { # TODO: maybe reduce even more
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix
index 60a3a8da76c..fc428a73743 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ with import ./release-lib.nix { inherit supportedSystems; };
   perl = all;
   pkgconfig = all;
   pmccabe = linux;
-  policykit = linux;
   portmap = linux;
   procps = linux;
   python = allBut cygwin;