diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.47.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.47.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 195cb469051..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.47.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, icu, expat, zlib, bzip2, python
-, enableRelease ? true
-, enableDebug ? false
-, enableSingleThreaded ? false
-, enableMultiThreaded ? true
-, enableShared ? true
-, enableStatic ? false
-, enablePIC ? false
-, enableExceptions ? false
-}:
-
-let
-
-  variant = stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep ","
-    (stdenv.lib.optional enableRelease "release" ++
-     stdenv.lib.optional enableDebug "debug");
-
-  threading = stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep ","
-    (stdenv.lib.optional enableSingleThreaded "single" ++
-     stdenv.lib.optional enableMultiThreaded "multi");
-
-  link = stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep ","
-    (stdenv.lib.optional enableShared "shared" ++
-     stdenv.lib.optional enableStatic "static");
-
-  # To avoid library name collisions
-  finalLayout = if ((enableRelease && enableDebug) ||
-    (enableSingleThreaded && enableMultiThreaded) ||
-    (enableShared && enableStatic)) then
-    "tagged" else "system";
-
-  cflags = if enablePIC && enableExceptions then
-             "cflags=-fPIC -fexceptions cxxflags=-fPIC linkflags=-fPIC"
-           else if enablePIC then
-             "cflags=-fPIC cxxflags=-fPIC linkflags=-fPIC"
-           else if enableExceptions then
-             "cflags=-fexceptions"
-           else
-             "";
-in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "boost-1.47.0";
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "http://boost.org/";
-    description = "Boost C++ Library Collection";
-    license = "boost-license";
-
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons ];
-  };
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_47_0.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "815a5d9faac4dbd523fbcf3fe1065e443c0bbf43427c44aa423422c6ec4c2e31";
-  };
-
-  # See <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4688>.
-  patches = [ ./boost_filesystem_1_47_0.patch ];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  buildInputs = [icu expat zlib bzip2 python];
-
-  configureScript = "./bootstrap.sh";
-  configureFlags = "--with-icu=${icu} --with-python=${python}/bin/python";
-
-  buildPhase = "./b2 -j$NIX_BUILD_CORES -sEXPAT_INCLUDE=${expat}/include -sEXPAT_LIBPATH=${expat}/lib --layout=${finalLayout} variant=${variant} threading=${threading} link=${link} ${cflags} install";
-
-  installPhase = ":";
-
-  crossAttrs = rec {
-    buildInputs = [ expat.crossDrv zlib.crossDrv bzip2.crossDrv ];
-    # all buildInputs set previously fell into propagatedBuildInputs, as usual, so we have to
-    # override them.
-    propagatedBuildInputs = buildInputs;
-    # We want to substitute the contents of configureFlags, removing thus the
-    # usual --build and --host added on cross building.
-    preConfigure = ''
-      export configureFlags="--prefix=$out --without-icu"
-    '';
-    buildPhase = ''
-      set -x
-      cat << EOF > user-config.jam
-      using gcc : cross : $crossConfig-g++ ;
-      EOF
-      ./b2 -j$NIX_BUILD_CORES -sEXPAT_INCLUDE=${expat.crossDrv}/include -sEXPAT_LIBPATH=${expat.crossDrv}/lib --layout=${finalLayout} --user-config=user-config.jam toolset=gcc-cross variant=${variant} threading=${threading} link=${link} ${cflags} --without-python install
-    '';
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/boost_filesystem_1_47_0.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/boost_filesystem_1_47_0.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f32e9ed572d..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/boost_filesystem_1_47_0.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-diff -ubr boost_1_47_0/libs/filesystem/v2/src/v2_path.cpp boost_1_47_0-patched/libs/filesystem/v2/src/v2_path.cpp
---- boost_1_47_0/libs/filesystem/v2/src/v2_path.cpp	2011-01-11 22:39:33.000000000 +0100
-+++ boost_1_47_0-patched/libs/filesystem/v2/src/v2_path.cpp	2011-07-21 01:06:26.000000000 +0200
-@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
-   {
- #if !defined(macintosh) && !defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(__APPLE_CC__) 
-     // ISO C calls this "the locale-specific native environment":
--    static std::locale lc("");
-+    static std::locale lc;
- #else  // Mac OS
-     // "All BSD system functions expect their string parameters to be in UTF-8 encoding
-     // and nothing else."
-diff -ubr boost_1_47_0/libs/filesystem/v3/src/path.cpp boost_1_47_0-patched/libs/filesystem/v3/src/path.cpp
---- boost_1_47_0/libs/filesystem/v3/src/path.cpp	2011-07-05 16:49:42.000000000 +0200
-+++ boost_1_47_0-patched/libs/filesystem/v3/src/path.cpp	2011-07-21 01:06:26.000000000 +0200
-@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@
-     // or LANG are wrong, for example), so dynamic initialization is used to ensure
-     // that exceptions can be caught.
- 
--    return std::locale("");
-+    return std::locale();
- 
- #   endif
-   }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 290b841553e..8a786c82e4c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3395,7 +3395,6 @@ let
   boolstuff = callPackage ../development/libraries/boolstuff { };
 
   boost144 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.44.nix { };
-  boost147 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.47.nix { };
   boost149 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.49.nix { };
   boost153 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.53.nix { };
   boost = boost153;
@@ -8423,7 +8422,7 @@ let
       kipi_plugins = callPackage ../applications/graphics/kipi-plugins { };
 
       koffice = callPackage ../applications/office/koffice {
-        boost = boost147;
+        boost = boost149;
       };
 
       konq_plugins = callPackage ../applications/networking/browsers/konq-plugins { };