diff --git a/core/grep/PKGBUILD b/core/grep/PKGBUILD
deleted file mode 100644
index 89612ffb8..000000000
--- a/core/grep/PKGBUILD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# $Id: PKGBUILD 91020 2010-09-21 03:26:36Z allan $
-# Maintainer: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
-# Contributor: judd <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
-# PlugApps patch: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@plugaps.com>
-
-pkgname=grep
-pkgver=2.7
-pkgrel=1
-plugrel=1
-pkgdesc="A string search utility"
-arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
-license=('GPL3')
-url="http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/grep.html"
-groups=('base')
-depends=('glibc' 'pcre' 'sh')
-makedepends=('texinfo')
-install=${pkgname}.install
-source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz
-        grep.patch)
-md5sums=('6dd9931a52501519d7779a27cf953326'
-         '79d26bec3335edc85add876f297ef961')
-
-build() {
-  cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
-  patch -Np1 -i ${srcdir}/grep.patch
-  ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --without-included-regex
-  make
-  make check
-}
-
-package() {
-  cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
-  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
-}
diff --git a/core/grep/grep.install b/core/grep/grep.install
deleted file mode 100644
index ba97d8994..000000000
--- a/core/grep/grep.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-infodir=/usr/share/info
-filelist=(grep.info)
-
-post_install() {
-  [ -x usr/bin/install-info ] || return 0
-  for file in ${filelist[@]}; do
-    install-info $infodir/$file.gz $infodir/dir 2> /dev/null
-  done
-}
-
-post_upgrade() {
-  post_install $1
-}
-
-pre_remove() {
-  [ -x usr/bin/install-info ] || return 0
-  for file in ${filelist[@]}; do
-    install-info --delete $infodir/$file.gz $infodir/dir 2> /dev/null
-  done
-}
-
diff --git a/core/grep/grep.patch b/core/grep/grep.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 09f059ca8..000000000
--- a/core/grep/grep.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -urN a/tests/backref-multibyte-slow b/tests/backref-multibyte-slow
---- a/tests/backref-multibyte-slow	2010-08-13 23:36:34.000000000 +0000
-+++ b/tests/backref-multibyte-slow	2011-01-05 04:32:14.669176000 +0000
-@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
- 
- for LOC in en_US.UTF-8; do
-   out=out-$LOC
--  LC_ALL=$LOC timeout 5s grep -E '^([a-z]).\1$' in > $out 2>&1
-+  LC_ALL=$LOC timeout 120s grep -E '^([a-z]).\1$' in > $out 2>&1
-   test $? = 0 || fail=1
-   compare $out in || fail=1
- done