diff --git a/recipes/xz/01-no-poll.patch b/recipes/xz/01-no-poll.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c36484fec4a58f46555a09484d8088eb55d1638..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/xz/01-no-poll.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru source/src/xz/file_io.c source-new/src/xz/file_io.c
---- source/src/xz/file_io.c	2016-12-30 03:13:57.000000000 -0800
-+++ source-new/src/xz/file_io.c	2017-08-08 12:34:08.453700076 -0700
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
- #ifdef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
- #	include <io.h>
- #else
--#	include <poll.h>
-+//#	include <poll.h>
- static bool warn_fchown;
- #endif
- 
-@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
- #endif // ENABLE_SANDBOX
- 
- 
--#ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
-+#if 0
- /// \brief      Waits for input or output to become available or for a signal
- ///
- /// This uses the self-pipe trick to avoid a race condition that can occur
-@@ -704,6 +704,7 @@
- 	// If it is something else than a regular file, wait until
- 	// there is input available. This way reading from FIFOs
- 	// will work when open() is used with O_NONBLOCK.
-+#if 0
- 	if (!S_ISREG(pair->src_st.st_mode)) {
- 		signals_unblock();
- 		const io_wait_ret ret = io_wait(pair, -1, true);
-@@ -713,6 +714,7 @@
- 			goto error;
- 	}
- #endif
-+#endif
- 
- #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
- 	// It will fail with some special files like FIFOs but that is fine.
-@@ -1127,7 +1129,7 @@
- 				continue;
- 			}
- 
--#ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
-+#if 0
- 			if (IS_EAGAIN_OR_EWOULDBLOCK(errno)) {
- 				const io_wait_ret ret = io_wait(pair,
- 						mytime_get_flush_timeout(),
-@@ -1215,7 +1217,7 @@
- 				continue;
- 			}
- 
--#ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
-+#if 0
- 			if (IS_EAGAIN_OR_EWOULDBLOCK(errno)) {
- 				if (io_wait(pair, -1, false) == IO_WAIT_MORE)
- 					continue;
diff --git a/recipes/xz/02-o_noctty.patch b/recipes/xz/02-o_noctty.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ad56398fde29b6c775466b17dc529b57d3958ec..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/xz/02-o_noctty.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru source/src/common/tuklib_open_stdxxx.c source-new/src/common/tuklib_open_stdxxx.c
---- source/src/common/tuklib_open_stdxxx.c	2016-12-30 03:08:20.000000000 -0800
-+++ source-new/src/common/tuklib_open_stdxxx.c	2017-08-08 12:38:10.703829409 -0700
-@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
- 			// writing to stdin would fail. However, /dev/full
- 			// is Linux specific, and if the program tries to
- 			// write to stdin, there's already a problem anyway.
--			const int fd = open("/dev/null", O_NOCTTY
--					| (i == 0 ? O_WRONLY : O_RDONLY));
-+			const int fd = open("/dev/null",
-+					(i == 0 ? O_WRONLY : O_RDONLY));
- 
- 			if (fd != i) {
- 				if (fd != -1)
diff --git a/recipes/xz/03-no-signals.patch b/recipes/xz/03-no-signals.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fce80eaa49edc5d38e51a9eafaeb6f329c0200c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/xz/03-no-signals.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru source/src/xz/message.c source-new/src/xz/message.c
---- source/src/xz/message.c	2016-12-30 03:08:20.000000000 -0800
-+++ source-new/src/xz/message.c	2017-08-08 12:44:30.584447139 -0700
-@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
- 	}
- */
- 
--#ifdef SIGALRM
-+#if 0
- 	// Establish the signal handlers which set a flag to tell us that
- 	// progress info should be updated.
- 	struct sigaction sa;
-diff -ru source/src/xz/signals.c source-new/src/xz/signals.c
---- source/src/xz/signals.c	2016-12-30 03:08:20.000000000 -0800
-+++ source-new/src/xz/signals.c	2017-08-08 12:41:59.624111395 -0700
-@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
- extern void
- signals_init(void)
- {
-+#if 0
- 	// List of signals for which we establish the signal handler.
- 	static const int sigs[] = {
- 		SIGINT,
-@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@
- 	signals_are_initialized = true;
- 
- 	return;
-+#endif
- }
- 
- 
-@@ -152,6 +154,7 @@
- extern void
- signals_exit(void)
- {
-+#if 0
- 	const int sig = exit_signal;
- 
- 	if (sig != 0) {
-@@ -171,6 +174,7 @@
- 	}
- 
- 	return;
-+#endif
- }
- 
- #else
diff --git a/recipes/xz/recipe.sh b/recipes/xz/recipe.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 239add3561a54ada71ed793904fd06bfd06a3945..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/xz/recipe.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-VERSION=5.2.3
-TAR=https://codeload.github.com/xz-mirror/xz/tar.gz/v$VERSION
-
-function recipe_version {
-    echo "$VERSION"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_update {
-    echo "skipping update"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_build {
-    export CFLAGS="-static"
-    
-    # autogen.sh requires autopoint which is provided by the gettext homebrew
-    # formula on macOS. Unfortunately, homebrew does not install it into PATH
-    # because macOS provides the BSD gettext library. So we make sure to include
-    # it in PATH, preceding the default BSD version.
-    if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]]; then
-        export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH"
-    fi
-
-    ./autogen.sh
-
-    chmod +w build-aux/config.sub
-    wget -O build-aux/config.sub http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.sub
-    ./configure \
-        --build=${BUILD} \
-        --host=${HOST} \
-        --prefix=/ \
-        --disable-lzmadec \
-        --disable-lzmainfo \
-        --disable-xz \
-        --disable-xzdec \
-        --enable-shared=no \
-        --enable-static=yes \
-        --enable-threads=no \
-        --with-pic=no
-    "$REDOX_MAKE" -j"$($NPROC)"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_test {
-    echo "skipping test"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_clean {
-    "$REDOX_MAKE" clean
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_stage {
-    dest="$(realpath $1)"
-    "$REDOX_MAKE" DESTDIR="$dest" install
-    rm -rf "$dest/share"
-    skip=1
-}