diff --git a/dev-libs/confuse/files/confuse-2.6-noexamples.patch b/dev-libs/confuse/files/confuse-2.6-noexamples.patch
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/dev-libs/confuse/files/confuse-2.6-noexamples.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/confuse-2.6-r3/work/confuse-2.6/Makefile.am ./Makefile.am
---- ./Makefile.am	2007-10-13 16:39:59.000000000 -0400
-+++ ./Makefile.am	2009-02-28 22:27:06.000000000 -0500
-@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@
- AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
- CLEANFILES=*~ '\#*\#'
- EXTRA_DIST=libconfuse.spec.in libconfuse.spec
--SUBDIRS = m4 po src examples tests doc
-+
-+if ENABLE_EXAMPLES
-+  EXAMPLES = examples
-+endif
-+SUBDIRS = m4 po src $(EXAMPLES) tests doc
- 
- pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
- pkgconfig_DATA = libconfuse.pc
-diff -ru /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/confuse-2.6-r3/work/confuse-2.6/configure.ac ./configure.ac
---- ./configure.ac	2009-02-28 20:54:04.000000000 -0500
-+++ ./configure.ac	2009-02-28 22:26:38.000000000 -0500
-@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
- AC_DISABLE_SHARED
- AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
- 
-+#optional building of examples:
-+AC_ARG_ENABLE(examples, 
-+	AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-examples], [don't build examples in examples]),
-+	[], [enable_examples=yes])
-+
-+AM_CONDITIONAL([ENABLE_EXAMPLES], [test "$enable_examples" = yes])
- AM_CONDITIONAL([cc_is_gcc], test "$GCC" = "yes")
- 
- AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])