diff --git a/pkgs/system/populate-linkdirs.pl b/pkgs/system/populate-linkdirs.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index a0585a7d97c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/system/populate-linkdirs.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/perl -w
-
-use strict;
-use Cwd;
-
-my $selfdir = $ENV{"out"};
-mkdir "$selfdir", 0755 || die "error creating $selfdir";
-
-# For each activated package, create symlinks.
-
-sub createLinks {
-    my $srcdir = shift;
-    my $dstdir = shift;
-
-    my @srcfiles = glob("$srcdir/*");
-
-    foreach my $srcfile (@srcfiles) {
-        my $basename = $srcfile;
-        $basename =~ s/^.*\///g; # strip directory
-        my $dstfile = "$dstdir/$basename";
-	if ($srcfile =~ /\/envpkgs$/) {
-	} elsif (-d $srcfile) {
-            # !!! hack for resolving name clashes
-            if (!-e $dstfile) {
-                mkdir $dstfile, 0755 || 
-                    die "error creating directory $dstfile";
-            }
-            -d $dstfile or die "$dstfile is not a directory";
-            createLinks($srcfile, $dstfile);
-        } elsif (-l $dstfile) {
-            my $target = readlink($dstfile);
-            die "collission between $srcfile and $target";
-        } else {
-#            print "linking $dstfile to $srcfile\n";
-            symlink($srcfile, $dstfile) ||
-                die "error creating link $dstfile";
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-my %done;
-
-sub addPkg {
-    my $pkgdir = shift;
-
-    return if (defined $done{$pkgdir});
-    $done{$pkgdir} = 1;
-
-    print "merging $pkgdir\n";
-
-    createLinks("$pkgdir", "$selfdir");
-
-#    if (-f "$pkgdir/envpkgs") {
-#	my $envpkgs = `cat $pkgdir/envpkgs`;
-#	chomp $envpkgs;
-#	my @envpkgs = split / +/, $envpkgs;
-#	foreach my $envpkg (@envpkgs) {
-#	    addPkg($envpkg);
-#	}
-#    }
-}
-
-foreach my $pkgdir (split ' ', $ENV{"dirs"}) {
-    addPkg($pkgdir);
-}