diff --git a/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2005/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2005/default.nix
index 8db1c8dfd43..03ba20b11da 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2005/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2005/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, patchelf, libX11, libXext}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, libXext}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "aangifte2005-1";
@@ -9,6 +9,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     md5 = "9cc709b8ad041f4b20154ff1491d0436";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [patchelf];
   inherit libX11 libXext;
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2006/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2006/default.nix
index d4ab104dcc6..8bf5ddeee40 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2006/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2006/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, patchelf, libX11, libXext}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, libXext}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "aangifte2006-1";
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "1hgm3vmcr32v34h4y8yz3vxcxbcsxqb12qy1dqqwgbg1bja7nvrc";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [patchelf];
   inherit libX11 libXext;
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
index da51f3acac8..27b1b73b67c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "patchelf-0.1";
+  name = "patchelf-0.3";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/patchelf-0.1/patchelf-0.1.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "bc20c173bf8bd590fa8ee0f348a563be";
+    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/patchelf-0.3/patchelf-0.3.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "20d77052ae559c60e6c5efb6ea95af9b";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://nix.cs.uu.nl/patchelf.html";
+    license = "GPL";
+    description = "A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/new.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/new.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ada2e2508c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/new.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "patchelf-0.3pre7826";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/patchelf-0.3pre7826/patchelf-0.3pre7826.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "0wnb5a5964dgp55awygvzw2ssa6j63s568qg4i6kjfx11vvl3zqi";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a76d23911fe..1e16c9d01a5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1079,14 +1079,9 @@ rec {
   };
 
   patchelf = useFromStdenv (stdenv ? patchelf) stdenv.patchelf
-    (if stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux" then patchelfNew else
-      (import ../development/tools/misc/patchelf {
+    (import ../development/tools/misc/patchelf {
         inherit fetchurl stdenv;
-      }));
-
-  patchelfNew = import ../development/tools/misc/patchelf/new.nix {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
-  };
+    });
 
   /**
    * pkgconfig is optionally taken from the stdenv to allow bootstrapping
@@ -2511,13 +2506,11 @@ rec {
   aangifte2005 = import ../applications/taxes/aangifte-2005 {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl;
     inherit (xlibs) libX11 libXext;
-    patchelf = patchelfNew;
   };
 
   aangifte2006 = import ../applications/taxes/aangifte-2006 {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl;
     inherit (xlibs) libX11 libXext;
-    patchelf = patchelfNew;
   };
 
   abiword = import ../applications/office/abiword {