diff --git a/core/pinentry/PKGBUILD b/core/pinentry/PKGBUILD
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ab653c7a..000000000
--- a/core/pinentry/PKGBUILD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-# $Id: PKGBUILD 146746 2012-01-16 22:52:53Z dreisner $
-# Maintainer: Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
-
-# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
-#  - rebuild for libpng, remove when bumped upstream
-
-pkgname=pinentry
-pkgver=0.8.1
-pkgrel=3.1
-pkgdesc="a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol"
-arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
-license=('GPL')
-url="http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten2"
-depends=('ncurses' 'libcap>=2.16')
-makedepends=('gtk2' 'qt')
-optdepends=('gtk2: for gtk2 backend'
-            'qt: for qt4 backend')  
-source=(ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz
-        gtk2-pinentry-segfault.patch)
-install=pinentry.install
-
-build() {
-  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
-  for file in qt4/*.moc; do
-       /usr/bin/moc ${file/.moc/.h} > ${file}
-   done
-  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
-	--enable-pinentry-curses \
-        --disable-pinentry-gtk \
-        --disable-pinentry-qt \
-	--enable-pinentry-gtk2 \
-        --enable-pinentry-qt4 \
-	--enable-fallback-curses
-  make 
-  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install 
-  #rm ${pkgdir}/usr/share/info/dir 
-  #rm ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pinentry 
-  #ln -s /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pinentry 
-}
-md5sums=('81f99904daee5331eb6738408bb024b6'
-         'bd9888fafc56464b2c4deaad5b8edb07')
diff --git a/core/pinentry/gtk2-pinentry-segfault.patch b/core/pinentry/gtk2-pinentry-segfault.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c0b9fb4ca..000000000
--- a/core/pinentry/gtk2-pinentry-segfault.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- gtk+-2/pinentry-gtk-2.c.orig	2010-03-03 05:19:55.000000000 -0600
-+++ gtk+-2/pinentry-gtk-2.c	2010-07-07 00:11:30.413572124 -0500
-@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
- {
-   gdk_keyboard_ungrab (gdk_event_get_time (event));
-   /* Unmake window transient for the root window.  */
--  gdk_window_set_transient_for (win->window, NULL);
-+  gdk_property_delete (win->window, gdk_atom_intern_static_string ("WM_TRANSIENT_FOR"));
- }
- 
- 
diff --git a/core/pinentry/pinentry.install b/core/pinentry/pinentry.install
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index eed2c7124..000000000
--- a/core/pinentry/pinentry.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-infodir=usr/share/info
-filelist=(pinentry.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
-}