diff --git a/pkgs/fetchurl/fetchurl.fix b/pkgs/fetchurl/fetchurl.fix
deleted file mode 100644
index a3b3d46e10e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/fetchurl/fetchurl.fix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Function(["url", "hash"],
-  Package(
-    [ ("build", Relative("fetchurl/fetchurl.sh"))
-    , ("url", Var("url"))
-    , ("hash", Var("hash"))
-    , ("name", BaseName(Var("url")))
-    ]
-  )
-)
diff --git a/pkgs/fetchurl/fetchurl.sh b/pkgs/fetchurl/fetchurl.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index a92092c6ee0..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/fetchurl/fetchurl.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-
-wget "$url" -O "$out"