diff --git a/packages/python/system/yenc/build b/packages/python/system/yenc/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 07a62bda96..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/system/yenc/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-export PYTHONXCPREFIX="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr"
-export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-
-python setup.py build --cross-compile
-python setup.py install --root=./.install --prefix=/usr
-
-rm -rf .install/usr/bin
-rm -rf .install/usr/lib/python*/site-packages/*.py
diff --git a/packages/python/system/yenc/install b/packages/python/system/yenc/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 85a37ef61d..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/system/yenc/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/.install/* $INSTALL
diff --git a/packages/python/system/yenc/meta b/packages/python/system/yenc/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c2372b92c..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/system/yenc/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="yenc"
-PKG_VERSION="0.4.0"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.golug.it/yenc.html"
-PKG_URL="http://www.golug.it/pub/yenc/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS="Python"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python distutilscross"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="python/system"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="yenc: a fairly simple module, it provide only raw yEnc encoding/decoding with builitin crc32 calculation."
-PKG_LONGDESC="This a fairly simple module, it provide only raw yEnc encoding/decoding with builitin crc32 calculation. Header parsing, checkings and yenc formatting are left to you (see examples directory for possible implementations). The interface is similar to the uu module from python standard library."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
diff --git a/packages/python/system/yenc/patches/yenc-0.4.0-setuptools.patch b/packages/python/system/yenc/patches/yenc-0.4.0-setuptools.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 63ffb1677f..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/system/yenc/patches/yenc-0.4.0-setuptools.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur yenc-0.4.0/setup.py yenc-0.4.0.patch/setup.py
---- yenc-0.4.0/setup.py	2011-09-06 09:04:33.000000000 +0200
-+++ yenc-0.4.0.patch/setup.py	2012-11-06 20:15:14.369125798 +0100
-@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
-  # 
- ##=============================================================================
- 
--from distutils.core import setup, Extension
-+from setuptools import setup, Extension
- 
- setup(	
- 	name		 = "yenc",